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  • Would President Kerry defang the DMCA?

    John Kerry finally has hinted at a position that would mark one of the first real differences from his Republican rival.

  • Ashcroft resigns attorney general's post

    John Ashcroft, who was a proponent of encryption and privacy as a U.S. senator and a champion of expanded Internet surveillance as the nation's attorney general, resigned on Tuesday.

  • US 'pressuring' Australia for DMCA-style law

    The chairman of US-based digital rights advocacy group the Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF) has warned that Australian technology rights are being threatened.

  • Privacy issues with Google library search

    A contract between Google and the University of Michigan released publicly on Friday contains no provisions for protecting the privacy of people who will eventually be able to search the school's vast library collection over the Internet.

  • Cyberlaw: Future's pretty fuzzy

    The state of Internet law was in flux in 2001. Lawyer Doug Isenberg says that if any lesson has emerged, it's that the same thing will probably remain true for 2002.

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  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    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.

  • Cyberlaw: Future's pretty fuzzy

    The state of Internet law was in flux in 2001. Lawyer Doug Isenberg says that if any lesson has emerged, it's that the same thing will probably remain true for 2002.

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