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The remedy that wasn't such a bitter pill

...When the Clinton administration filed its sweeping antitrust suit against Microsoft in early 1998, federal... Read more

24 March, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

Crypto compromise a lawyers' delight

Even as industry celebrated the Clinton Administration's new, more liberal rules on export of encryption technology, civil... Read more

14 January, 2000 by Kevin Poulsen

White House enters the Napster fray

The Clinton Administration is taking the recording industry's side in the Napster debate... Read more

11 September, 2000 by Lisa M Bowman

US to ease encryption rules

The Clinton administration plans to announce that it will relax restrictions on exports of... Read more

16 September, 1999 by John Simons

US Report: Clinton administration to ease grip on crypto exports

The Clinton Administration is expected to relax export controls on data scrambling equipment Wednesday... Read more

16 September, 1998 by Will Rodger

COPA backers slam ruling, urge appeal

...U.S. Rep. Tom Bliley, R-Va., said in a statement the Clinton administration should "continue defending this law or [appeal] all the way to... Read more

3 February, 1999 by Maria Seminerio

US Report: Will Clinton replace Internet adviser?

Although many industry-watchers believe the Clinton administration is moving in the right direction on technology policy, they don... Read more

10 November, 1998 by Maria Seminerio

US Report: Clinton's Web plans hang in balance after summits

The Clinton administration has learned a lot after a series of summits on Internet... Read more

12 June, 1998 by ZDNet

US Report: Domain-name plans pass to industry

Those familiar with the Clinton administration's Web domain privatisation plan, to be announced today, say many... Read more

5 June, 1998 by ZDNet

Intel's Barrett raps crypto controls

Intel President and CEO Craig Barrett called on the Clinton administration to drop its controls on encryption during testimony before Congress' Joint... Read more

15 June, 1999 by Maria Seminerio

Yanks' V-chip era is on schedule

The deployment of one of the Clinton administration's most valued weapons against too much sex and violence on... Read more

10 June, 1999 by ZDNet

US Report: White House releases Net name plan

The Clinton administration released its final plan to overhaul the Internet's naming system... Read more

8 June, 1998 by ZDNet

US Report: Clinton's crypto policy 'a failure'

...said what civil libertarians and industry executives have asserted for years: The Clinton administration's policy on banning exports of data-scrambling technologies has failed... Read more

16 April, 1998 by ZDNet

US Government Web tracking under scrutiny

...agencies tracking visitors. "The guidance is very clear." While working in the Clinton administration in 2000, Swire helped to craft an earlier Web tracking policy... Read more

5 January, 2006 by Anne Broache and Declan McCullagh

Europe asserts its right to regulate

...that the decision violated the spirit of a 1991 "comity agreement" the Clinton administration renewed in 1998, which generally says the United States should take... Read more

11 June, 2004 by Declan McCullagh and Evan Hansen

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