FC: Privacy will be legacy of 106th Congress, from The Hill

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[The Hill newspaper kindly asked me to contribute to their Pundit Speak 
column (the paper is a weekly, and widely read in DC). --Declan]


http://www.hillnews.com/features/pundits.html

   Declan McCullagh
   Chief Washington correspondent
   wired.com

   "This was the first Congress that took privacy seriously. The legacy
   of the 106th Congress won't include aggressive privacy legislation -
   that'll happen next year - but it does include a growing distrust of
   both corporations' data collection practices and the federal
   government's surveillance capabilities. Some examples: This year the
   Privacy Caucus was formed, to regulate the privacy sector, while the
   House Judiciary Committee last month took the courageous and
   unprecedented-in-recent-history step of raising the legal standards
   required for police to intercept e-mail. That simply wouldn't have
   happened any other time in the last two decades."




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