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The Prime Minister, John Howard, has conceded that anti-terrorism legislation in many countries is antiquated and ill-equipped to cope with terrorists' exploitation of new technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones to carry out their activities.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
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