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FC: Bush and Gore campaigns to debate privacy; Rep. Vento dead at 60
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:03:07 -0400
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/10/2031205&mode=nested Bush and Gore Campaigns Will Debate Privacy posted by cicero on Tuesday October 10, @03:22PM Representatives of the George W. Bush and Al Gore campaigns will debate privacy in Washington on October 16. Now, the candidates themselves aren't going to be there, but a privacy debate is still a first. A related one happened today at the Brookings Institution, when Sen. Robert Bennett (for Bush) and Robert Shapiro, Commerce Department undersecretary (for Gore) tangled over "technology and the global economy." There's one odd thing about the Bush-Gore privacy debate: It's being hosted by Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University, a "communitarian" who's deeply suspicious of proposals to limit government surveillance, and an unusual choice for a moderator. See below for details. Also see Gore and Bush and Ralph Nader on privacy. http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/10/215207&mode=nested Rep. Bruce Vento Dies of Cancer at 60 posted by cicero on Tuesday October 10, @04:00PM from the environmental-and-privacy-activist dept. CNN is reporting that Rep. Bruce Vento, a Minnesota Democrat, died Tuesday afternoon. Vento, who died of cancer at 60 and was not running for re-election, is best known for his work on environmental issues, and former Vice President Walter Mondale and the Sierra Club lauded his work. Vento also spent years trying to regulate corporations' privacy practices. Among the bills he introduced in that area are H.R.313 and H.R.2882. The former says websites may no longer share "personally identifiable information" about their visitors without prior "written consent" -- a phrase that once attracted the sobriquet of a "chronologically-backward" bill. Vento also co-sponsored SAFE, a bill to relax encryption export controls, and H.R.306, which would prohibit genetic discrimination. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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