Politech: FC: Bush and Gore campaigns to debate privacy; Rep. Vento dead at 60

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/10/2031205&mode=nested

   Bush and Gore Campaigns Will Debate Privacy
   posted by cicero on Tuesday October 10, @03:22PM

   Representatives of the George W. Bush and Al Gore campaigns
   will debate privacy in Washington on October 16. Now, the candidates
   themselves aren't going to be there, but a privacy debate is still a
   first. A related one happened today at the Brookings Institution, when
   Sen. Robert Bennett (for Bush) and Robert Shapiro, Commerce Department
   undersecretary (for Gore) tangled over "technology and the global
   economy." There's one odd thing about the Bush-Gore privacy debate:
   It's being hosted by Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University, a
   "communitarian" who's deeply suspicious of proposals to limit
   government surveillance, and an unusual choice for a moderator. See
   below for details. Also see Gore and Bush and Ralph Nader on privacy.


http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/10/215207&mode=nested

   Rep. Bruce Vento Dies of Cancer at 60
   posted by cicero on Tuesday October 10, @04:00PM
   from the environmental-and-privacy-activist dept.

   CNN is reporting that Rep. Bruce Vento, a Minnesota Democrat,
   died Tuesday afternoon. Vento, who died of cancer at 60 and was not
   running for re-election, is best known for his work on environmental
   issues, and former Vice President Walter Mondale and the Sierra Club
   lauded his work. Vento also spent years trying to regulate
   corporations' privacy practices. Among the bills he introduced in that
   area are H.R.313 and H.R.2882. The former says websites may no longer
   share "personally identifiable information" about their visitors
   without prior "written consent" -- a phrase that once attracted the
   sobriquet of a "chronologically-backward" bill. Vento also
   co-sponsored SAFE, a bill to relax encryption export controls, and
   H.R.306, which would prohibit genetic discrimination.




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