Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Cop-Friendly Approach to Handling Medical Data - The Clinton administration proposed a range of new steps to safeguard the privacy of personal medical records. But the suggestions leave law enforcement with nearly unfettered access to such data. [Wired News]   Cops Leave 'Blasphemous' Link Alone - British investigators decide not to proceed against a gay/lesbian site that links to a poem including some raw references to Jesus Christ. [Wired News]   Cops, Spies Fail to Slow Crypto Bill - In a remarkable attempt to stop what looks like a runaway train, the Clinton administration sent a platoon of national security and law-enforcement heavies to testify against popular House legislation. The bill passed its latest committee test anyway. [Wired News]   Corporate Censorship, Part I: Son of Wal-Mart - Jon Katz reviews what his dust-up with the retailing behemoth has taught us. [Wired News]   Corporate Censorship, Part II: Chilling Effect - The government is doing relatively little institutionalized censoring these days, Jon Katz says. [Wired News]   Corporate Privacy Standards Fail to Please Activists - Consumer online privacy advocates at the Federal Trade Commission's Net privacy hearings are countering an industry-led privacy standard with a healthy dose of skepticism. [Wired News]   Costly Flop: California's Deadbeat Database - State officials concede that a six-year, US$82 million effort to create a system to track parents who fail to pay child support probably ought to be taken behind the wood shed - and abandoned. [Wired News]   Court Casts Skeptical Eye on Net Decency Law - In a tough hearing on one of the crucial free-speech cases of the century, justices question the sweep of the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]   Court Chases Down Copies of Sealed Document - Making sure all the documents are offline may be easier ruled than done. [Wired News]   Court Strikes Down FCC Telco Order - A federal appeals tribunal says the Federal Communications Commission overstepped its authority in trying to set a rate structure for local phone competition. [Wired News]   Critical Mass Rolls - on Street and Online - Cyclo-politics is making headlines in San Francisco, where riders, cops, and politicians are waging a battle for the streets. Critical Mass, the leaderless force facing off with the city, has also staked out a little piece of cyberspace to tell its story and do some strategizing. [Wired News]   Crypto Case Offers Ammo in Export Fight - A federal district court's ruling that US encryption export policy is unconstitutional could strengthen the cause against a Senate bill that would codify the current export policy. [Wired News]   Crypto Confab: Talking Code with No Consensus - A group of encryption experts gets together in New York to discuss whether US national policy has reached a crisis point. Agreement? Your cat has a better shot at breaking 128-bit code. [Wired News]   Crypto Liberalization Bill Crippled - The House National Security Committee performs radical surgery on a bill intended to get the federal government out of the business of regulating encryption exports. As amended, the bill now gives the feds a stronger say than ever on what can be sold abroad. [Wired News]   Crypto Reform Bill Is Now a Changeling - The House Intelligence Committee reverses provisions in Bob Goodlatte's SAFE that would make strong encryption more readily available and make sure that the US is not subject to a national system of giving cops keys to scrambled data. [Wired News]   Culture Crisis Part II: Media Won't Save You - Sex, race, and gender meltdowns flummox the media. Jon Katz looks on. [Wired News]   Culture Crisis Part III: Talk Amongst Ourselves - Jon Katz has a few prescriptions for a rational media. [Wired News]   Cyber Rights Now: 'Scotty, Beam Down the Lawyers!' - Viacom's move to crack down on Star Trek fan sites illustrates the increasingly uncomfortable mix of intellectual property, creativity, and DIY Web publishing. [Wired News]   Cyber Rights: Too Close for Comfort - Congress has become hostile turf for campaigns to relax the US government's encryption export controls. [Wired News]   Cyberlaw's Deep Thinker Wins Big - Pamela Samuelson has been there on many of the big software copyright cases, often fighting for the little guy. And now the UC Berkeley prof is getting her due: A $295,000 MacArthur "genius" award. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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