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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 06:10:52 -0700
Subject: NewsScan Daily, 1 October 1999 ("Above The Fold")
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NewsScan Daily, 1 October 1999 ("Above The Fold")
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JUSTICE MAY REVIEW ENCRYPTION RULING
An appeals court has granted the U.S. Justice Department a new hearing over
its authority to regulate the export of encryption technology. In May, a
three-judge panel had ruled that encryption programs and the mathematical
algorithms therein were expressions of ideas, and therefore protected under
the right to free speech. The panel found that the existing regulations
"allow the government to restrain speech indefinitely, with no clear
criteria for review." Justice appealed that decision, which it said
threatened its ability to keep strong encryption software out of the hands
of criminals and terrorists. The lawsuit was initiated by Daniel Bernstein,
a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who claimed government
suppression of his encryption software was a violation of his right to free
speech. The Clinton administration has promised some concessions to software
companies who want to export their encryption products, but those rules
won't be implemented until December. (AP 1 Oct 99)
http://wire.ap.org/
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