[IP] Weekly column: The Specter-Leahy bill's Net crackdown [fs]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: July 4, 2005 11:11:01 PM EDT
To: politech@politechbot.com
Subject: [Politech] Weekly column: The Specter-Leahy bill's Net  
crackdown [fs]




http://news.com.com/The+coming+Web+security+woes/ 
2010-1071_3-5772012.html

The coming Web security woes
July 4, 2005, 6:00 AM PT
By Declan McCullagh

Our esteemed leaders in the U.S. Congress are vowing to enact new  
laws targeting data thieves, backup-tape burglars and other  
information-age miscreants.

We should be worried.

Any reasonable person, of course, should agree that such thefts must  
be punished and data warehouses should let us know if our information  
falls into the hands of criminals.

But a bill announced last week by Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., and  
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., goes far beyond reasonable data security  
precautions. It amounts to a crackdown on individuals, bloggers and  
legitimate e-mail list moderators.

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