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Re: White House to announce encryption policy change on Monday?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sat Jul 15 14:21:47 2000
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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:31:27 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> White House chief of staff John Podesta will be talking about encryption
> policy at 10 am at the National Press Club on Monday.
>
> According to a White House source, the topic will be the "need to address
> public safety and law enforcement needs." The White House also said Podesta
> will talk about updating "laws and practices in the face of changing
> technology, while protecting privacy and civil liberties."
>
> Keep in mind that Podesta is a very smart fellow, and shepherded through
> the latest encryption policy change, announced on September 16, 1999 at the
> White House press conference he attended. He's shown up at meetings of the
> President's Export Council encryption subcommittee, and co-chaired a
> high-level interagency group on the topic.
>
> I don't know the content of his remarks. But when folks start talking about
> the need to protect public safety and update laws to reflect changing
> technology, I'm not sure if I'm terribly optimistic.
Stand by for the US version of RIP.
Cheers,
Ben.
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