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US Report: Clinton Administration To Ease Grip On Crypto Exports
News According to Administration sources, the White House will loosen its grip on the technology in several areas central to the five-year argument over the issue. Meanwhile, the administration has its defenders.
[September 16, 1998, 9:11]
US Report: Will Clinton Replace Internet Adviser?
News Although many industry-watchers believe the Clinton administration is moving in the right direction on technology policy, they don't think Ira Magaziner, soon to leave his post as senior technology adviser to the president, should be the last...
[November 10, 1998, 10:11]
The Remedy That Wasn't Such A Bitter Pill
News When the Clinton administration filed its sweeping antitrust suit against Microsoft in early 1998, federal officials pledged that it would reshape the computer industry. In mid-1998, when the Clinton administration filed its antitrust suit against...
[March 24, 2004, 15:45]
US Report: Clinton's Web Plans Hang In Balance After Summits
News The Clinton administration has learned a lot after a series of summits on Internet privacy, safety and connectivity issues, but key questions are still being debated as officials complete a report on e-commerce and online privacy due on Clinton's...
[June 12, 1998, 9:50]
US Report: Domain-name Plans Pass To Industry
News Those familiar with the Clinton administration's Web domain privatisation plan, to be announced today, say many crucial details - such as who will be in charge of the Net administration body, and provisions for dispute resolution and distribution...
[June 5, 1998, 12:17]
Clinton: Relax Crypto Export Controls
News The Clinton administration on Wednesday proposed further easing of encryption exports and expanding of the regions where US companies can ship powerful computers without restrictions. In a move that could be its final action regarding encryption...
[January 11, 2001, 12:11]
US Report: Arms-control Agreement Threatens E-commerce
News On Thursday Clinton administration officials announced they had persuaded representatives from 32 other countries to impose strict new export controls on the computer data-scrambling technology known as encryption.
[December 4, 1998, 8:07]
Internet Policy In The Bush Administration
White Papers It is clear that the Internet will not hold the same position of importance that it held in the Clinton administration. A transition team in underway and President Clinton has instructed his cabinet members to work with that team.
[November 6, 2004, 2:00]
US Report: US To Spur Third-world E-commerce
News Government Working Group on Electronic Commerce (the follow-up to last year's sweeping Clinton administration e-commerce report) Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will lead the charge to promote open information policies among governments of...
[December 1, 1998, 9:15]
Clinton Advisor Defends Net Privatisation
News WASHINGTON-With full recognition that the government is stepping into a minefield of controversy, President Clinton's top policy adviser on technological issues today said the administration has taken the wisest course in its plan to privatize...
[February 5, 1998, 9:19]
Civil Liberties Group Opposes Clinton's Spy Plans
News With most wiretaps authorised by U.S.judges over the past decade targeted at individual offenders such as gamblers and drug runners, rather than big-time terrorists, proposed new wiretap powers in the US, will only give the Clinton administration...
[March 24, 1998, 10:14]
Ira Magaziner: U.S. At Odds With EU Net Privacy Directive
News While negotiations with EU governments are on hold until next month, Clinton administration officials believe they can be induced to consider a more market-driven approach to protecting consumers' online privacy, Ira Magaziner, the senior adviser...
[August 26, 1998, 6:44]
A Year Ago: US To Spur Third-world E-commerce
News Under the program, outlined in Monday's First Annual Report of the US Government Working Group on Electronic Commerce (the follow-up to last year's sweeping Clinton administration e-commerce report) Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will lead...
[December 1, 1999, 6:06]
Clinton Calls For Internet-security Summit
News The National Security Council has taken the lead in organising the conference, a sign that the Clinton administration views the attacks as a potential security threat rather than as a nuisance crime or a moderate economic disruption.
[February 14, 2000, 9:44]
Do We Need A Second Internet?
News The Clinton administration released the plan at the beginning of this year. Speaking to more than 100 security and privacy experts, President Clinton's top advisor on cybersecurity said a new, secure Internet is needed to insure that the country is...
[December 11, 2000, 9:33]
Labels Battle To Hold Onto DMCA Win
News Verizon and its allies, including a former Clinton administration privacy official, have suggested that copyright holders should file a "John Doe" lawsuit to unmask suspected peer-to-peer infringers instead of wielding DMCA subpoenas.
[February 10, 2003, 9:05]
Encryption Export Picture Remains Unclear
News Patel wrote in Monday's ruling, and in another ruling last December on an earlier version of the Clinton administration's crypto export policy, that data scrambling software programs are akin to "music and mathematical equations," and therefore...
[August 27, 1997, 10:04]
Hackers Say They'll Take Off New Year's
News The two defacements seem to validate a novel request that the Clinton administration made last week, albeit in an ironic way. While the Clinton Administration's request seemed aimed primarily at serious network intruders rather than those who...
[December 23, 1999, 10:16]
US Government Web Tracking Under Scrutiny
News While working in the Clinton administration in 2000, Swire helped to craft an earlier Web tracking policy. During the Clinton administration, the White House's Office of Management and Budget published initial guidelines for federal Web sites in...
[January 5, 2006, 14:05]
Europe Asserts Its Right To Regulate
News Europe's rise in global antitrust enforcement comes as United States-led regulation efforts under the Bush administration have slackened, compared with those of the Clinton regime -- a shift that has made the contrast between the two regions...
[June 11, 2004, 10:40]
