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CRYPTO HEARINGS (S.1726) SET FOR 6/12/96 IN WASHINGTON D.C.
MEET AND SPEAK TO SENATOR BURNS ON HOTWIRED THE NIGHT BEFORE!
SEN. CONRAD BURNS (R-MT) SCHEDULED FOR HOTWIRED CHAT 6/11/96 10-11PM EST
Date: June 7, 1996
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NEWS
In what is becoming the newest way for Congress to read the net.community's
opinion on issues, Senator Conrad Burns will be on HotWired on June
11th @ 10pm EST to discuss the encryption issue with all attendees.
The next day, Senator Burns will be coordinating a day of hearings on the
encryption issues with industry luminaries.
Never before has the public had this much access to legislators without
geographical proximity. Cheaper than teleconferencing, and more direct
and unfiltered than the traditional press, online chats allow the public
to directly question and hear the answers of Congress.
Have a question about encryption policy that you've never been able to find
out from the government? Come to the HotWired chat and ask Senator Burns
to be your advocate, to press the witnesses and the White House on these
issues.
The online chat is on June 11 at 10pm EST, the night before the hearings
HotWired's WiredSide chat is at (http://www.hotwired.com/wiredside).
Information on Senator Burns' legislation is available at
http://www.crypto.com
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PRESS RELEASE ON HEARINGS
Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.)
WEB SITE http://www.senate.gov/~burns/
For immediate release: Contact: Matt Raymond
Thursday, June 6, 1996 (202) 224-8150
Randall Popelka
(202) 224-6137
First Pro-CODE Hearing Slated
Burns' Subcommittee to Hear High-Profile Executives, Witnesses
WASHINGTON, D.C. _ Montana Senator Conrad Burns today announced
the first of two Senate hearings on S. 1726, the Promotion of Commerce
Online in the Digital Era Act of 1996, or "Pro-CODE." The hearing will
take place in the Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space,
of which Burns is chairman.
The hearing is scheduled Wednesday, June 12, at 9:30 a.m. in room
253 of the Russell Senate Office Building.
Scheduled to testify are: Michael Zisman, president and CEO of
Lotus; Jim Barksdale, president and CEO of Netscape Communications; Jim
Bidzos, president and CEO of RSA Data Security; Tim Krauskopf, V.P. and
co-founder of Spyglass Inc.; Kenneth Dam, chairman of the National
Research Council; Douglas J. McGowan, director of the SmartCard Alliance
for Hewlett-Packard; Computer Systems Policy Project representative
(invited); Joe Holmes, chief technology officer for EDS; Joel S. Lisker,
senior V.P. for security and risk management at MasterCard; Danne
Buchanan, president of Zion's Data Services Company; Jack Valenti,
executive director of the Motion Picture Association of America; Aharon
Friedman, chairman, founder and chief technical officer of Digital
Secured Networks Technology Inc.; Steve Case, president and CEO of
America Online (invited); and Robert Bigomy, senior V.P. and director of
strategic marketing, government and space technology group, for Motorola.
Burns said the focus of the hearing is on commerce and business
issues. He said a second hearing, which will focus on privacy, law
enforcement and national security issues, is scheduled in his
subcommittee on June 26.
The bipartisan Pro-CODE bill would ease export restrictions on
computer security, or "encryption," for software and hardware. It would
also prohibit mandatory systems in which users or companies would have to
place a code-breaking "key" in the hands of a third party.
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