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IP: New Encryption Rules Leave Civil Libertarians Unhappy
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:45:06 -0500
New Encryption Rules Leave Civil Libertarians Unhappy By JERI CLAUSING WASHINGTON -- Before the Clinton administration last week unveiled its long-awaited plan for deregulating encryption technology, the Commerce Department's point man on the issue said he was sure of one thing: the changes would never please everyone. He was right. While most high-tech companies are applauding the new encryption regulations as delivering on Vice President Al Gore's promises to eliminate cumbersome licensing rules on exporting software, civil libertarians say they fail to fix the constitutional questions at the heart of pending court cases. The American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Electronic Frontier Foundation say the new rules still raise free-speech questions for researchers who want to publish their source code -- the lines of instructions programmers write -- on the Internet. And they are vowing to continue pushing their assertion that the regulations make encryption software and technology more cumbersome to publish or send on the Internet than for the same items published in other media. <snip> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/cyber/capital/18capital.html
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