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

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Tue Jul 5 02:17:01 PDT 2005


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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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