IP: FBI kills "privacy gone crazy" bank confidentiality plan

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> TGime to quote Franklin again

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin, ~1784

> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> Final vote was 129-299, so the amendment failed in roll call vote #269. To
> see how your Congresscritter voted:
>
> http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=1999&rollnumber=269
>
> -Declan
>
> *******
>
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20554.html
>
>                      FBI Subdues 'Privacy Gone Crazy'
>                      by Declan McCullagh 
>
>                      3:00 a.m.  2.Jul.99.PDT
>                      Law enforcement groups and their
>                      supporters in Congress rallied late
>                      Thursday in a united show of opposition
>                      to a bank privacy proposal. 
>
>                      Warning in the darkest terms that a plan
>                      to protect the confidentiality of bank
>                      records was "privacy gone crazy,"
>                      opponents angrily denounced it on the
>                      floor of the US House of Representatives.
>
>                      [...]
>
>                      A hastily assembled alliance of
>                      law-and-order conservatives and liberal
>                      Democrats predicted that a plan to
>                      reduce such surveillance of customers
>                      would turn the US into "a
>                      money-laundering haven."
>
>                      [...remainder snipped...]
>
>
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