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Gore, Clipper Chip backer, now wants to be privacy advocate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Mon Aug 3 14:07:05 1998
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 08:05:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980803-14267,00.html
TIME.com / The Netly News
August 3, 1998
Al Gore, Reborn as Privacy Advocate, Has Sinned Before
By Declan McCullagh (declan@well.com)
Why mess with a winning formula? First Al Gore took credit for a
federal plan to wire schools and libraries to the Internet. Now he's
busy promoting a privacy "Bill of Rights" -- but this time, it's
proving difficult to escape his own history.
Privacy advocates wasted no time after Gore's speech in the White
House's Roosevelt Room last Friday before assailing the proposal as
meaningless and the Vice President as a hypocrite.
[...remainder snipped...]
