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<description>Legal and Technical Authorities Impacting the Internet</description>
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<copyright>Copyright 2003 SophiaKnows</copyright>
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<title>CESA Lives: Secret Searches Provision In The Meth Bill</title>
<pubDate>May 24 2000</pubDate>
<description>In the debate about improving cyber-security, concern has been expressed about the 'trust deficit' between law enforcement and many in the public interest community and industry. Outrageous attacks like this one on fundamental constitutional protections are a big part of why such a trust deficit exists ... </description>
<source>http://www.hackernews.com/special/2000/fightcesa.html</source>
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<title>FTC Recommends Congress Take Action on Online Privacy </title>
<pubDate>May 24 2000</pubDate>
<description>After several years of relying on a self-regulatory approach, the Federal Trade Commission has issued a report to Congress asking for the authority to regulate online privacy. While the report showed that more Web sites are posting privacy policies, but that only 20% meet the FTC's fair information practices. Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) has written a bill based on the report's findings. May 23, 2000 ... </description>
<source>http://www.cdt.org/</source>
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<title>Judge Orders Microsoft Split in 2</title>
<pubDate>Jun 09 2000</pubDate>
<description>In a strongly worded order, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson largely accepted the plan submitted by attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department and 17 states to divide the company and to impose restrictions on its aggressive behavior until the breakup can be put into place ... </description>
<source>http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13768-2000Jun7.html</source>
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<title>Federal Trade Commission Testifies on Online Profiling Report</title>
<pubDate>Jun 13 2000</pubDate>
<description>Jodie Bernstein, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, presented FTC testimony today before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the Commission's report titled 'Online Profiling: A Report to Congress.' The report, issued today, describes the nature of online profiling, consumer privacy concerns about these practices and the Commission's efforts to date to address these concerns. The report does not include any legislative ... </description>
<source>http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/06/profiling.htm</source>
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<title>Judge Sends Microsoft Case to High Court</title>
<pubDate>Jun 20 2000</pubDate>
<description>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The judge in the Microsoft antitrust case sent the company's appeal directly to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, and suspended stringent business restrictions of the software giant he had ordered to take effect in September ... </description>
<source>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000620/tc/microsoft_dc_11.html</source>
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<title>AT&T Prevails in Open Access</title>
<pubDate>Jun 23 2000</pubDate>
<description>SAN FRANCISCO -- AT&T has won an important victory in its legal battle with the city of Portland, Oregon, over regulating delivery of high-speed Internet service over cable wires. A federal appeals court in San Francisco reversed a previous ruling Thursday that had ordered AT&T to give competing Internet service providers access to its cable service under terms set by Portland officials ... </description>
<source>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37169,00.html</source>
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<title>Court Says Anti-Smut Law Illegal</title>
<pubDate>Jun 23 2000</pubDate>
<description>The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld a lower court's decision against the Child Online Protection Act, saying in a strongly-worded opinion that the measure was so unconstitutionally broad it affected even non-pornographic websites ... </description>
<source>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37171,00.html</source>
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<title>Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works</title>
<pubDate>Jun 23 2000</pubDate>
<description>The U.S. Copyright Office has been holding hearings regarding exemptions to the ban on circumvention of access control technologies included the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998. Public hearings were held May 2-4, 2000, in Washington, D.C., and May 18-19, 2000, in Stanford, California ... </description>
<source>http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html</source>
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<title>Online Pharmacies Settle FTC Charges</title>
<pubDate>Jul 12 2000</pubDate>
<description>Viagra, Propecia Prescriptions Promoted With False Medical Claims Consumers' Medical and Financial Data Collected With False Privacy Assurances ... </description>
<source>http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/07/iogcomp.htm</source>
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<title>DeCSS Lawyers Press MPAA </title>
<pubDate>Jul 18 2000</pubDate>
<description>To open the landmark trial over pirated DVD movies, a lawyer representing the defendants tries to hammer home the message that cracking the encryption is difficult and takes a long time ... </description>
<source>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37615,00.html</source>
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<title>U.S. eases crypto rules</title>
<pubDate>Jul 18 2000</pubDate>
<description>The United States has eased its rules on exporting encryption products to the European Union and other key trading partners in an effort to try to improve security in cyberspace and promote electronic commerce, the White House said on Monday. Under the new policy, U.S. companies no longer need a license to export encryption products to any end user in the 15 nations of the European Union as well as Australia, Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Japan, New Zealand and Switzerland ... </description>
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<title>FTC Announces Settlement With Bankrupt Website, Toysmart.com, Regarding Alleged Privacy Policy Violations </title>
<pubDate>Jul 21 2000</pubDate>
<description>Agreement Enforces Privacy Promises, Prohibits Sale of Customer Lists Except Under Very Restricted Circumstances; Company Also Faces First Charge of Violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) In a settlement announced today by the Federal Trade Commission, Toysmart.com ('Toysmart') has agreed to settle charges the company violated Section 5 of the FTC Act by misrepresenting to consumers that personal information would never be shared with third parties and then ... </description>
<source>http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/07/toysmart2.htm</source>
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<title>Federal Trade Commission Issues Part 2 of Report on Online Profiling </title>
<pubDate>Jul 27 2000</pubDate>
<description>The Federal Trade Commission today issued the second part of its report on online profiling by network advertisers. The Commission unanimously applauded the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) for developing an innovative self-regulatory proposal which addresses the privacy concerns consumers have about online profiling. This report follows an initial report released on June 13, 2000, which described the nature of online profiling practices, consumer privacy concerns about these practices, and ... </description>
<source>http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/07/onlineprofiling.htm</source>
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<title>Carnivore Fact-sheet </title>
<pubDate>Aug 14 2000</pubDate>
<description>Carnivore is an application and server developed by the FBI Computer Crimes squad to log and/or capture discoverable, on-line transaction data passing over the IP-based network [n.1] of an individual Internet Service Provider (ISP) ... </description>
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<title>FCC Wiretap Order Overturned</title>
<pubDate>Aug 17 2000</pubDate>
<description>Privacy groups are cheering a federal appeals court decision that promises to curb the ability of law enforcement agencies to get access to Internet-style communications. The decision also reins in the hungry maw of the government's Carnivore monitoring system. Tuesday's ruling re-affirms in a digital context a long-held and constitutionally imposed restraint on the powers of law enforcement to monitor the contents of communications: that the 'probable cause' standard must be met before a warran ... </description>
<source>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38258,00.html</source>
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<title>MP3.Com Must Pay the Piper </title>
<pubDate>Sep 07 2000</pubDate>
<description>NEW YORK -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday that MP3.com willfully engaged in thousands of acts of copyright infringement when it created an 80,000-album, digital database that allowed users to stream music from its servers. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said that MP3.com knowingly violated copyrights when it created its my.mp3.com service. With damages to the company assessed at $25,000 per CD, MP3.com could be out by roughly $118 million ... </description>
<source>http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38613,00.html</source>
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<title>CSS & DeCSS Fact-sheet</title>
<pubDate>Sep 28 2000</pubDate>
<description>The Content Scramble System (CSS) is a proprietary encryption system developed by the DVD Copy Control Association (DCCA), an industry organization chartered to design and promote a common security scheme for the protection of copyrighted materials distributed on Digital Versatile Disks (DVD) ... </description>
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<title>ICANN Issues Advisory Concerning Regland Litigation </title>
<pubDate>Nov 03 2000</pubDate>
<description>ICANN has seen reports that Regland, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against ICANN in state court in Texas. The lawsuit complains about ICANN's statements concerning Regland's business practices in taking money for 'pre-registrations' in proposed top-level domains (TLDs) that do not exist, have not yet been approved by ICANN, and may never be available on the Internet. Regland's claims are utterly baseless and ICANN regards the lawsuit as frivolous ... </description>
<source>http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-03nov00.htm</source>
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<title>ICANN: Report on New TLD Applications</title>
<pubDate>Nov 09 2000</pubDate>
<description>In August, 2000, ICANN issued a formal call for proposals by those seeking to sponsor or operate one or more new top-level domains for the Internet's Domain Name System. Forty-seven applicants submitted proposals in response to this call. Two of the applications were returned to the applicants for failure to pay the application fee, and a third was withdrawn by the applicant because the applicant and the ICANN staff were unable to reach agreement on the applicant's request for confidenti ... </description>
<source>http://www.icann.org/tlds/report/</source>
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<title>MP3.com Clears Final Hurdle</title>
<pubDate>Nov 15 2000</pubDate>
<description>NEW YORK -- Internet music company MP3.com (MPPP.O) agreed to pay $53.4 million in damages to Universal Music Group, the world's largest record company, to resolve a copyright infringement case that could have crippled it ... </description>
<source>http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40178,00.html</source>
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<title>ICANN Announces Selections For New Top-Level Domains</title>
<pubDate>Nov 16 2000</pubDate>
<description>The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN) today announced its selections for registry operators for new top level domains. The applications selected for further negotiation are the following: ... </description>
<source>http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr16nov00.htm</source>
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<title>Paris Court Orders Yahoo! U.S. to Block French Users from Nazi Auctions</title>
<pubDate>Nov 20 2000</pubDate>
<description>The County Court of Paris issued an order directing Yahoo!, Inc. to employ 'reasonable' technological means for blocking French based users from auctions of Nazi memorabelia on the company's U.S. based Web servers ... </description>
<source>http://www.silicongulch.org/silicongulch/cases/LICRAvYAHOO.html</source>
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<title>Carnivore Technical Report Released</title>
<pubDate>Dec 07 2000</pubDate>
<description>A team from the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute (IITRI) released a draft of its report on the FBI's Carnivore monitoring system. The report pointed out several weaknesses in the system, but also concluded that the system, when used correctly, appropriately limits the amount of information collected and stored ... </description>
<source>http://www.cdt.org/security/carnivore</source>
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<title>Federal Dist.Court Blocks WhoIs Spam </title>
<pubDate>Dec 12 2000</pubDate>
<description>A federal judge dealt a significant victory to domain name registrar Register.com in a lawsuit against Web hosting firm Verio Inc. over unauthorized use of data about its customers ... </description>
<source>http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40609,00.html</source>
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<title>Sex.com Dispute in Final Stage?</title>
<pubDate>Dec 29 2000</pubDate>
<description>The fight for control of the domain name sex.com is entering a new -- and perhaps final -- round. Breathing fresh life into a two-year-old lawsuit, a federal appeals court agreed to consider a motion from the site's former operator, Stephen Michael Cohen, who is seeking to regain ownership of the sex.com domain. The move gives San Francisco's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals a deciding role in one of the steamiest cases in the history of domain-name litigation ... </description>
<source>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40881,00.html</source>
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<title>Yahoo! Inc. to Ban Hate Materials</title>
<pubDate>Jan 03 2001</pubDate>
<description>PARIS (AP) - Advocacy groups that sued to block French Web surfers from accessing Nazi artifacts cheered Yahoo's decision to stop carrying online auctions of hate-related materials worldwide ... </description>
<source>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010103/tc/yahoo_nazi_auctions_5.html</source>
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<title>9th Circuit Finds Unauthorized Use of Passworded Website May Violate ECPA</title>
<pubDate>Jan 08 2001</pubDate>
<description>Reversing a trial court decision, a Federal Appeals Court panel finds that a claim that an employer used a 'borrowed' password to access an employee website consitutes a triable claim under the stored communications provisions of the ECPA ... </description>
<source>http://www.silicongulch.org/silicongulch/opinions/CA9-960498-SJL-010108.txt</source>
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<title>1st Circuit Upholds Anti-cybersquatting Injunction</title>
<pubDate>Jan 09 2001</pubDate>
<description>This case involves a dispute over the simultaneous use of two similar Internet domain names by two separate entities. Defendants-appellants Northern Lights Club, Jeff Burgar and 641271 Alberta Ltd. appeal a preliminary injunction entered by the district court requiring the posting of a specified disclaimer on their World Wide Web site's portal page. The court entered the injunction after finding that plaintiff-appellee Northern Light Technology, Inc. ('Northern Light' or 'plaintiff') was likely ... </description>
<source>http://silicongulch.org/silicongulch/cases/CA-01-00-1641.TXT</source>
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<title>FCC Gives Conditoned Approval to AOL - Time Warner Merger</title>
<pubDate>Jan 12 2001</pubDate>
<description> Although the Commission found that the FTC consent decree with AOL Time Warner would substantially ensure that unaffiliated ISPs are able to offer their services over AOL Time Warner's cable system on non-discriminatory terms and conditions, the Commission found that AOL Time Warner might have insufficient incentives to enter contracts with local or regional ISPs that are unaffiliated with AOL Time Warner ... </description>
<source>http://www.fcc.gov/aol_tw.html</source>
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<title>Judge Orders Napster to Screen Copyrighted Material From Network</title>
<pubDate>Mar 05 2001</pubDate>
<description>U.S. District Court Judge Marylin Patel (N.D. Ca.) issued an order mandating filtering of copyrighted materials from Napster, Inc.'s MusicShare Service. The order requires filtering by at least song and album titles, artist names and obvious variants. The order follows an unsuccessful 1 billion dollar settlement effort by Napster, as well as the company's own previously announces plans to begin filtering copyrighted material. ... </description>
<source>http://silicongulch.org/cases/00-4068a.pdf</source>
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<title>Federal District Court Finds Previously Viewed E-Mail Not a 'Stored Communication' </title>
<pubDate>Mar 27 2001</pubDate>
<description>Granting summary judgment to an 'employer', the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania holds that once an e-mail message has been viewed by its intended recipient, it is no longer a 'stored communication' within the meaning of the Electronic Communication Privacy Act and not therefore protected under Federal law ... </description>
<source>http://www.silicongulch.org/silicongulch/cases/EDPA98-6726-010327.txt</source>
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<title>U.S. District Court Asserts Personal Jurisdiction Over French Plaintiffs in LYCRA v. Yahoo!, Inc.</title>
<pubDate>Jun 07 2001</pubDate>
<description>In the wake of a controversial decision by a Paris court, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Ca. asserted personal jurisdiction over the French based organizations prosecuting the original action ... </description>
<source>http://www.silicongulch.org/silicongulch/cases/00-21275-A.pdf</source>
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<title>Russian Progammer Detained at Black Hat Briefings Under DMCA Charge</title>
<pubDate>Jul 19 2001</pubDate>
<description>The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Dmitry Sklyarov, of Moscow, Russia, made an initial appearance yesterday in Las Vegas, Nevada, on a complaint from the Northern District of California charging a single count of trafficking in a product designed to circumvent copyright protection measures in violation of Title 17, United States Code, Section 1201(b)(1)(A).ΚΚ This is one of the first prosecutions in the United States under this statute, the ... </description>
<source>http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/Sklyarov.htm</source>
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<title>Appeals Court Upholds Conviction of Off-shore Internet Gambling Operator</title>
<pubDate>Jul 31 2001</pubDate>
<description>The 2d Circuit affirmed the conviction of Jay Cohen under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1084 Mr. Cohen, a U.S. citizen and part owner of an account wagering operation based in Antigua, was convicted of conspiracy and abetting the transmission of wagers from a jurisdiction in which betting was illegal (New York State) ... </description>
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<title>Russian Programmer and Company Indicted for DMCA Violations</title>
<pubDate>Aug 28 2001</pubDate>
<description>The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that Elcom Ltd. (also known as Elcomsoft Co. Ltd.) and Dmitry Sklyarov, 27, both of Moscow, Russia, were indicted today by a federal grand jury in San Jose, California on five counts of copyright violations ... </description>
<source>http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/can/press/html/2001_08_28_skyarov.html</source>
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<title>U.S. Copyright Office releases favorable evaluation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act</title>
<pubDate>Aug 31 2001</pubDate>
<description>U.S. Copyright Office released its annual report evaluating the performance of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Athough the report asked Congress to clarify the legality of temporary copies and called for legislation explicity permit archiving, the Report found concerns over Sections 1201 and 1202 premature ... </description>
<source>http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/sec-104-report-vol-1.pdf</source>
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<title>Cyberscam Targeted by FTC</title>
<pubDate>Oct 01 2001</pubDate>
<description>A cyberscammer who used more than 5,500 copycat Web addresses to divert surfers from their intended Internet destinations to one of his sites, and hold them captive while he pelted their screens with a barrage of ads, was charged by the Federal Trade Commission with violating federal laws. At the request of the FTC, a U.S. District Court enjoined his activities pending further order of the court. The FTC will seek a court order to force the defendant to give up his ill-gotten gains ... </description>
<source>http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/10/cupcake.htm</source>
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<title>Web Technology Patents Could Exclude Non-Commercial Implementations</title>
<pubDate>Oct 04 2001</pubDate>
<description> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is currently considering a controversial new policy on the treatment of patent claims in the web standards process. The proposed change would allow, for the first time, some web standards to require licensing fees for implementation ... </description>
<source>http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010816/</source>
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<title>Take Action To Stop Annoying Marketing Calls</title>
<pubDate>Jan 29 2002</pubDate>
<description>FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION PROPOSES NATIONAL "DO NOT CALL" LIST Americans have said over and over again that they want to be able to avoid telemarketing calls at home. Their concerns range from the simple inconvenience of being interrupted at dinner to issues of fraudulent calls. Some federal rules are already in place that limit the time calls can be made (8am to 9pm) and that prohibit telemarketers from lying or misrepresenting their products. Some states have gone further. Even with these limit ... </description>
<source>http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_8.01.shtml</source>
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<title>Call For Best Practices, Cases Studies And Papers For E-gov Toolkit</title>
<pubDate>Feb 21 2002</pubDate>
<description>CDT, in association with the World Bank's InfoDev Program, is looking for best practices, case studies and papers for inclusion in a toolkit to guide the evolution of electronic government in developing countries. The toolkit is intended to be used by technology and policy leaders in the developing world to design their own e-government projects. Procedure: Send in your success stories, models, guides, etc, through the online form at: http://www.cdt.org/egov/submissions.shtml. Submissions for th ... </description>
<source>http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_8.02.shtml</source>
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<title>CFP2002 in San Francisco: Early Registration Deadline Approaching</title>
<pubDate>Mar 08 2002</pubDate>
<description>CFP2002 IN SAN FRANCISCO: EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 14 The Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference is the pre-eminent forum for issues regarding democracy and technology. This year, it will be April 16-19 in San Francisco, California. 2002 marks CFP's 12th anniversary. As the Internet has grown, the conference has been able to maintain the collective and inclusive nature so elegantly chronicled in Bruce Sterling's book -Hacker Crackdown-. The CFP audience is as diverse as the ... </description>
<source>http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_8.05.shtml</source>
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<title>Bill Mandating Copyright Protection Standards Raises Serious Concerns</title>
<pubDate>Apr 05 2002</pubDate>
<description>HOLLINGS INTRODUCES DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT BILL Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-SC) introduced legislation March 21 that would require the consumer electronics and information technology industries to build standardized copyright protection technologies into computers, software and many other digital products. In CDT's view, such sweeping government mandates pose serious threats to innovation and the future of the Internet and digital technology in general as uni ... </description>
<source>http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp_8.06.shtml</source>
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<title>Congress Update</title>
<pubDate>Apr 09 2002</pubDate>
<description>CONSUMER PRIVACY LEGISLATION PROMISED Last Fall, Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Rick Boucher (D-VA), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Billy Tauzin (R-LA) issued an outline of legislation to protect consumer privacy online and offline. Under their framework, companies would be required to give consumers notice of what information is collected about them and how it is used, and the ability to opt out of having their data shared with unaffiliated third parties. Companies could comply by following industry se ... </description>
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<title>Bi-Partisan Consumer Privacy Bill Introduced in Senate Commerce Committee</title>
<pubDate>Apr 23 2002</pubDate>
<description>SEN. HOLLINGS INTRODUCES PRIVACY LEGISLATION In an important step toward instituting consumer privacy protection in federal law, Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) introduced on April 16 his long-awaited Online Personal Privacy Act, a bill to protect the privacy of individuals who use the Internet. CDT welcomes the introduction of the bill as reinvigorating the privacy debate and reaffirming that consumer privacy in the digital age remains a critical issue in the wake of September 11. CDT has con ... </description>
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<title>Privacy Standard Moves Forward</title>
<pubDate>Apr 26 2002</pubDate>
<description>WEB PRIVACY STANDARD SET AS W3C RECOMMENDATION On April 16, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standard-setting body for the Web, issued the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) 1.0 Specification as an official "Recommendation." The P3P 1.0 Specification is essentially a common language for expressing Web site privacy policies in machine-readable form. It allows users to set their Web browsers to automatically read Web site privacy policies and match them against a user's own pre ... </description>
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<title>CDT Urges Court to Block French Net Content Restrictions in the U.S.</title>
<pubDate>May 10 2002</pubDate>
<description>CDT URGES COURT TO BLOCK FRENCH NET CONTENT RESTRICTIONS IN US On May 6, CDT, the ACLU and other public interest groups filed a brief in the ongoing litigation to declare unenforceable a French court decision ordering Yahoo! to block French users from accessing a broad array of WWII and Nazi material. The French decision, requiring Yahoo! to change the architecture of its US-based services or face massive fines, has broad implications for free speech and commerce online. The public interest grou ... </description>
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<title>Supreme Court Keeps Injunction Against COPA Net Content Controls</title>
<pubDate>May 13 2002</pubDate>
<description>The Supreme Court issued a ruling today in the case challenging the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), a federal law that restricts online content deemed "harmful to minors." Two lower courts had ruled that COPA violated the First Amendment and enjoined its enforcement. The Supreme Court today kept that injunction in force, blocking the Justice Department from enforcing the Act. The Court also returned the case to an intermediate-level appeals court based on flaws in that court's interpretation ... </description>
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<title>Capitol Hill "Busy Season" Brings Wave of Internet Proposals</title>
<pubDate>May 16 2002</pubDate>
<description>In both the Senate and the House of Representatives, a number of bills under active consideration have important consequences for civil liberties online. In this Policy Post, we summarize some of the most notable Internet-related legislation recently introduced in Congress and moving through its Committees. For regularly updated information, see CDT's bill-tracking pages at http://www.cdt.org/legislation/ ... </description>
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<title>CDT Project on Standards Explores Policy Impact of Technological Decisions</title>
<pubDate>May 30 2002</pubDate>
<description>Internet technical standards have a major impact on the Internet's uses and its future development, with broad implications for public policy and individual rights. For this reason, CDT launched last year its Internet Standards, Technology, and Policy Project, to increase public awareness of and input into technical decision-making. Our goal is to ensure that the Internet will continue to offer the freedom and empowerment users now enjoy. To better serve the public interest community and bring a ... </description>
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<title>Federal Court Rules Library Filtering Mandate Unconstitutional</title>
<pubDate>Jun 11 2002</pubDate>
<description>In a major victory for free speech online, a federal court in Philadelphia on May 31 rejected as unconstitutional a law that would have required nearly every library in America to install and use Internet filtering software. The three-judge panel unanimously ruled that the Children's Internet Protection Act, passed by Congress in late 2000, was overbroad, and would violate the First Amendment rights of library patrons, both adults and minors. The court therefore ordered that the law not be enfor ... </description>
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<title>Homeland Security Dept. to Encompass Cyber Security; Privacy Issues Addressed</title>
<pubDate>Jul 24 2002</pubDate>
<description>HOMELAND SECURITY ACT MOVES THROUGH CONGRESS Congress is moving rapidly to enact legislation to create a new Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, with uncertain but potentially large implications for privacy, cyber security and government accountability. The new agency will likely absorb the Coast Guard, the Customs Service, the Secret Service, part of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), among nearly two dozen offices an ... </description>
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<title>State Court Records Go Online, Posing Privacy Issues</title>
<pubDate>Aug 26 2002</pubDate>
<description>STATE COURT RECORDS GO ONLINE, POSING CONFLICT BETWEEN ACCESS AND PRIVACY Increasingly, state and county courts are turning to the Internet as a tool to handle caseloads and to open judicial proceedings to the public. More and more courts are using the Internet for case management, online filing of documents, and public access to records. The trend represents a quantum leap in the openness and thus the accountability of the judicial branch at the local level where most cases arise. However, as s ... </description>
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<title>Privacy and Security Risks in Driver's License Proposals</title>
<pubDate>Sep 05 2002</pubDate>
<description>The state driver's license has become much more than a license to drive. It is now used as a primary means of authenticating identity in a wide range of commercial and governmental transactions having nothing to do with operating a motor vehicle. In the wake of the horrific attacks of September 11, some have suggested that we should standardize the design of the state driver's license, add more features to the card and create data systems linked to the card. The new functionality of the card wou ... </description>
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<title>Some Positives in New ICANN Agreement, But Key Features Are Missing</title>
<pubDate>Oct 03 2002</pubDate>
<description>On September 20, the U.S. Department of Commerce renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the controversial organization that oversees the Internet's core numbering and addressing functions. The MOU authorizes ICANN to continue its activities for another year while laying out a "checklist" of reforms and activities for the next year. Although there are several positive developments in the MOU, it misses the mark on others ... </description>
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<title>The sniper case: Privacy, police work and databases</title>
<pubDate>Oct 25 2002</pubDate>
<description>WHAT DOES THE SNIPER CASE REVEAL ABOUT POLICING, TERRORISM AND DATABASES? Already the argument has been made on at least one list that "Big Brother caught the sniper" - that the person who was terrorizing the Washington, DC area was caught police by using massive government databases, citizen informants, and inter-agency government information sharing. We see it differently: The suspected sniper was caught in part using government databases consisting of carefully-defined information collected p ... </description>
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<title>Make Democracy Work. Vote!</title>
<pubDate>Nov 04 2002</pubDate>
<description>US ELECTION DAY - NOVEMBER 5 - Next Tuesday, November 5, is Election Day. CDT is strictly non-partisan, but we can tell you this: VOTE! The Internet is not immune from law and regulation. What elected officials do in Washington, in the states, and even at the local level will affect the future of the Internet - whether it remains open, decentralized and user controlled, a medium for innovation and free expression. We urge you to exercise your democratic right and fulfill your civic duty by voti ... </description>
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<title>Domain Names Body Approves Restructuring Package in Shanghai</title>
<pubDate>Nov 07 2002</pubDate>
<description>At its late-October meeting in Shanghai, China, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved sweeping new bylaws in an attempt to refocus and restructure the organization. Among other things, the new bylaws lay out ICANN's intended mission, revamp its process for selecting Directors, and reshape ICANN's policy-making process. ICANN is responsible for oversight of key central resources for the Internet, such as the domain names system. Since its creation in 1998, ICANN ... </description>
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<title>Privacy Impact Assessments for Federal Age</title>
<pubDate>Nov 21 2002</pubDate>
<description>NEW LAW TO REQUIRE PRIVACY IMPACT ASSESSMENTS FOR U.S. AGENCIES The E-Government Act of 2002, passed by Congress this week and soon to be signed into law, includes an innovative and potentially far-reaching provision requiring federal government agencies to conduct privacy impact assessments before developing or procuring information technology or initiating any new collections of personally-identifiable information. Under the legislation, originally introduced by Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT) a ... </description>
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<title>E-Government Handbook for Developing Countries</title>
<pubDate>Nov 25 2002</pubDate>
<description>CDT AND INFODEV PUBLISH CDT has published a comprehensive resource on e-government for developing and transitional countries. The "E-Government Handbook for Developing Countries" was funded by the World Bank's InfoDev (Information for Development) group. The Handbook catalogs key resources on e-government in a format readily useful for policymakers in the developing world. Moreover, almost all of the case studies and models are drawn from developing and transitional nations, showing that e-gove ... </description>
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<title>Filtering software's limits and benefits</title>
<pubDate>Dec 12 2002</pubDate>
<description>NEW STUDY SHOWS INTERNET FILTERING BLOCKS VALUABLE SITES, BUT CAN BENEFIT PARENTS A new study confirms that filtering technologies can over-block constitutionally-protected speech, but can be effective when used voluntarily in the home by knowledgeable consumers. The study, "See No Evil: How Internet Filters Affect the Search for Online Health Information," funded by the Kaiser Family Foundation, looked at the ways in which Internet filters impact young people's access to online health informati ... </description>
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<title>Homeland Security - What Does It Mean</title>
<pubDate>Dec 13 2002</pubDate>
<description>Homeland Security Department Faces Steep Challenges, Poses Momentous Potential and Risk The Homeland Security Act signed by President Bush on November 25, 2002 creates the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and grants it momentous responsibilities and powers. It is earnestly hoped that DHS will provide needed coordination to government anti-terrorism efforts. The new Department will have wide-ranging authority to compile, analyze, and mine the personal information of Americans. Important ... </description>
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<title>2002 Judicial Round-up</title>
<pubDate>Dec 19 2002</pubDate>
<description>Freedom of Expression - US Courts Enjoin Congressional Controls on Web Content * Supreme Court Blocks Enforcement of Federal Law on "Harmful to Minors" Web Content The Child Online Protection Act (COPA), passed in 1998, makes it a crime for anyone, by means of the World Wide Web, to make any communication for commercial purposes that is "harmful to minors" unless the person has somehow restricted access by minors (for example, by requiring a credit card number). In 1999, a federal district court ... </description>
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<title>Vital Digital Issues Likely to be on Congress' Agenda</title>
<pubDate>Jan 09 2003</pubDate>
<description>* Digital Rights Management A critical debate resumes in Congress about how to protect copyrighted material in the new digital media -- a debate that could define how Americans watch TV, listen to music, and use their computers for years to come. Last year, the proposals - none of which passed - ranged from the Hollings bill on digital rights management, to the Berman bill on peer-to-peer file sharing, to the Boucher proposal to amend parts of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Rep. Ri ... </description>
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<title>Concerns Over Datamining Grow</title>
<pubDate>Jan 15 2003</pubDate>
<description>Broad Coalition Calls for Moratorium, Hearings on Federal Datamining A broad coalition of public interest organizations sent a letter to Congress yesterday (1/14/03) asking for a moratorium on the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program until key questions about the "datamining" initiative have been answered. CDT joined the ACLU, Americans for Tax Reform, and other groups in sending a letter to the chairs and ranking members of four congressional committees, urging that Co ... </description>
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<title>Supreme Court Upholds Bono Act Extension of Copyright Term</title>
<pubDate>Jan 15 2003</pubDate>
<description>The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld longstanding copyrights designed to protect the profits of songs, books and cartoon characters, a huge victory for Disney and other companies. The 7-2 ruling, while not unexpected, was a blow to Internet publishers and others who wanted to make old books available online and use the likenesses of a Mickey Mouse cartoon and other old creations without paying high royalties ... </description>
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<title>Feds Open Portal for Online Comments on Regulations</title>
<pubDate>Jan 23 2003</pubDate>
<description>In a step forward for e-government, the Bush Administration today unveiled a new web site, http://www.regulations.gov, that allows individuals to more easily find and comment on proposed rules being considered by federal agencies. Increasingly, government agencies have been accepting online comments opposing or supporting proposed regulations, and a 1998 law requires all agencies, "when practicable," to accept submission of online comments by October of this year. But in the past, citizens had t ... </description>
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<title>Congress Considers Amendment to Rein in Domestic Spying</title>
<pubDate>Feb 05 2003</pubDate>
<description>Congress to Decide Fate of DoD Data-Mining Program Congress is now facing a key decision about the Pentagon's development of a massive tool to "mine" the data of innocent Americans looking for suspicious conduct - the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program. Last month, the US Senate adopted an amendment ("the Wyden amendment") holding up deployment of TIA until basic questions are answered about its potential for error and abuse of privacy. But the amendment hasn't passed the House yet, and t ... </description>
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<title>Senators Seek to Put More Info Online for Public</title>
<pubDate>Feb 11 2003</pubDate>
<description>Senators Re-introduce Resolution To Put More Congressional Info Online Congress, having passed a major e-government act for the Executive Branch and the courts last year, is still lagging in its own use of the Internet to make information available to citizens. Legislation being introduced today could change that. Led by Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), a bi-partisan group of Senators are today introducing a resolution to put Congressional Research Service reports and lobbying ... </description>
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<title>Reports Calls Pennsylvania Web Blocking Law Unconstitutional and Unsound</title>
<pubDate>Feb 20 2003</pubDate>
<description>The Center for Democracy and Technology released a major report calling unconstitutional a recent Pennsylvania law that forces Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block access to numerous web sites without adequate court oversight. The report's release coincides with a request under Pennsylvania's right-to-know law seeking records of the Attorney General's previously undisclosed demands to block web sites pursuant to the law ... </description>
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