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IP: Conservative group gives award to EFF
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:32:11 -0500
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:26:51 -0500 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/afternoon/0,1012,1766,00.html The Netly News / Afternoon Line February 25, 1998 Give Them an (Even) Hand Proving that the freedom to use encryption software has become a nonpartisan issue, a conservative group yesterday handed an award to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Free Congress Foundation, founded by Republican activist Paul Weyrich, said that EFF deserved the biannual Liberty Award for the group's yeoman's work on the Bernstein lawsuit. Currently the case, which claims restrictions on overseas shipments of encryption products violate the First Amendment, is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. --By Declan McCullagh/Washington ******************************** See you at INET'98, Geneva 21-24, July 98 <http://www.isoc.org/inet98/>
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