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- News items 2004-07-01
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- News items 2002-06-10
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- News items 2001-04-12
- Crypto compromise a lawyer's delight
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- News items 2000-01-14
- Privacy advocates criticize crypto compromise
- Even as industry celebrated the Clinton Administration's new, more liberal rules on export of encryption technology, civil libertarians said Thursday that the new regulations raise some of the same issues as the old ones. "These regulations are preserving the ability of the government to get in the way of...
- News items 2000-01-14
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- News items 1999-11-24
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- Has bureaucracy played its ugly hand? Companies say the regulation-writing process has muddied the new crypto rules. WASHINGTON -- Two months ago, high-tech companies cheered the Clinton administration's plan to give them a freer rein to sell data-scrambling products overseas. Now, one month before the...
- News items 1999-11-15
- Industry takes second look at new crypto regs
- WASHINGTON -- Two months ago, high-tech companies cheered the Clinton administration's plan to give them a freer rein to sell data-scrambling products overseas. Now, one month before the new encryption-export regulations are to be formally adopted, companies and privacy advocates are giving them a Bronx cheer....
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- Industry awaits details on crypto regs
- Industry and privacy advocates question whether Clinton's planned relaxation will be enough. Updated Sept. 17 9:42 AM PT The Clinton administration's plan to relax controls on encryption software exports is drawing guarded optimism from industry executives and privacy advocates. ...
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- The much-debated crypto bill will be reintroduced, and sponsors say this time it has the support to pass. UPDATED 11:30 AM PT An overhauled version of a law that would loosen regulations on data-scrambling software is to be introduced in Congress Thursday, and its sponsors say...
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