From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 23:44:30 +0800
To: mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de
Subject: Re: IP: Different Approaches to Privacy Issue: OECD
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Mok-Kong Shen writes:
> 
> Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
> > 
> 
> > 09 October 1998
> > 
> > OECD CONFERENCE ACCEPTS DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO
> > PRIVACY ISSUE
>  
> > Ottawa -- A conference of 29 industrialized countries for promoting
> > electronic commerce has resolved a controversy between the United
> > States and the European over Internet privacy by accepting both points
> > of view.
> > 
> > The United States contended industry should be left to manage the
> > problem by itself, but the European Union had demanded a government
> > regulatory approach.
> 
> This 'sounds' like the US is opposed to having any crypto regulations!??


No, the US is opposed to any privacy regulations.  "electronic commerce"
now means so many things that you have to consider it to be a comment
phrase that adds no meaning to the sentence in which it resides.


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