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It's a busy time for regulation-happy congresscritters. Last week, the Senate Commerce committee approved and sent to the floor... Burns' "Can Spam" act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00630: Wyden's national emergency technology guard bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.02037: Wyden's Cyber Security Research and Development Act (CSRDA): http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.02182: Opposition to the CSRDA: http://www.itaa.org/news/pr/PressRelease.cfm?ReleaseID=1021661107 http://www.bsa.org/usa/press/newsreleases/2002-05-17.1094.phtml ------------- ...the Commerce committee also approved the Online Personal Privacy Act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.2201: ...including two successful amendments... Brownback amendment on small business safe harbor: http://www.cdt.org/legislation/107th/privacy/020516brownback.pdf Nelson amendment, requiring "compliance officers": http://www.cdt.org/legislation/107th/privacy/020516nelson.pdf ...the largely Dem-GOP party-line vote came after opposition to the bill from just about every business group imaginable: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cspp.hollings.privacy.051702.html http://www.ccianet.org/letters/hollings_privacy.php3 http://www.uschamber.com/Press+Room/2002+Releases/May+2002/02-93.htm ------------- ...the Senate Judiciary committee, meanwhile, last week approved: Feinstein's Social Security Number Misuse Prevention Act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00848: ..and Cantwell's Restore Your Identity Act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.01742: ------------- ...the House Judiciary committee last week postponed votes on: the new "morphed" child porn bill, aka the Child Obscenity and Pormography Prevention Act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:h.r.4623: ...and Goodlatte's Internet gambling bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:h.r.3215: ------------- ...last week, a House Judiciary subcommittee postponed consideration of: Coble's "to provide criminal penalties for providing false information in registering a domain name on the Internet" bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:h.r.4640: Pence's "to punish persons who use false or misleading domain names to attract children to Internet sites not appropriate for children" bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:h.r.4658: ------------- ...on Tuesday, the full House is scheduled to vote on: the Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.03833: the Child Sex Crimes Wiretapping Act of 2002: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.01877: -Declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------