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December 1999
- Calls
for inquiry into spy bases,
ONE News, December 28, 1999.
- Haitian
ISP Gets Reconnected,
Reuters, December 27, 1999.
- Bill
Would Outlaw Drug Information,
APBNews.com, December 20, 1999.
- Bugging
Cell Phone Users, Daily
Mail & Guardian, December 17, 1999.
- How
Small-Town Standards Can Block a Big City
Class, NYTimes.com
(registration required), December 15,
1999.
- Dutch
ISP can publish privacy policies of other
ISPs, CNN.com, December
8, 1999.
- Hope
for censor hotline,
Australian IT, December 7, 1999.
November 1999
- EU
commissioner pushing for Net
self-regulation, Bloomberg
News, November 30, 1999.
- Act
would make ISPs liable, New
Zealand Herald, November 23, 1999.
- King
County District Court Issues First-Ever Usenet Gag
Order, MenWeb, November
12, 1999.
- Censorship
and Privacy in the Information
Age, Radio National,
November 11, 1999.
- DVD
Hackers Headed to Court?,
Wired News, November 10, 1999.
October 1999
- Police
power to read e-mails 'is breach of
rights', The Observer,
October 25, 1999.
- U.K.
Bill Combines E-Spying, Crypto
Control, Techweb,
October 17, 1999.
- EU
scraps global Net tapping plans... for
now, The Register,
October 12, 1999.
- Internet
censorship bill draws industry
warning, Fairfax I.T.,
October 12, 1999.
- Hunt
for the log files, Spiegel
Online, October 8, 1999.
- Tunis
fishes for net control,
Wired, October 4, 1999.
September 1999
- Surveillance,
a ZDNet News Special, ZDNet
News, September 27, 1999.
- Internet
Rating System Plans to
Globalize, New York
Times, September 25, 1999.
- Global
Net ratings committee emerges from Munich
summit, CNET News,
September 15, 1999.
- Plan
for Self-Rating of Web Sites
Assailed, Washington
Post, September 14, 1999.
- Summit
to Discuss Global System for Rating Internet
Content, New York
Times, September 9, 1999.
- International
Net ratings plan under fire,
CNET news, September 7, 1999.
- French
regulator seeks Internet watchdog
, Reuters, September 3,
1999.
- AOL,
others plan global Net content rating
system, CNET news,
September 2, 1999.
August 1999
- German
Encryption Software Freely
Exportable, Heise
Online, August 27, 1999.
- Sri
Lanka Row Over E-mail
'Espionage', BBC News,
August 20, 1999.
- Teletext
Information Is Not a
'Document', The Times,
August 17. 1999.
- 512-bit
codes cracked 'in days',
Sydney Morning Herald, August 13, 1999.
- Your
mission, e-mail: Self-Destruct! (encrypted
self-destructing email),
ZDNet News, August 12, 1999.
- Content
Rules on Table ("A summit in Germany next month could
decide how Internet content is regulated
worldwide."), Sydney
Morning Herald, August 10, 1999.
- Umno
to Probe 48 Websites, The
Star, August 9, 1999.
- Japanese
Wiretapping Proposal Draws More
Opposition, Newsbytes,
August 4, 1999.