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Letter sent to SJ Mercury staff on CA SJR-29 ...
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:26:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
To: business@sjmercury.com, computing@sjmercury.com, state@sjmercury.com
Subject: Why no coverage of CA resolution on Encryption?
Cc: hua@chromatic.com
Why was there no coverage of CA State resolution SJR-29?
I find it using the search facility at:
http://www.sen.ca.gov/www/leginfo/SearchText.html
And the result is at:
http://www.sen.ca.gov/htbin/ca-billpage/SJR/29/gopher_root2:[bill.current.sjr.from0000.sjr0029]
The on-line magazine has a full article by Will Rodger on this:
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/970908b.html
Apparently there was some attempt by the Clinton Administration to
cover up their lobbying effort. I don't understand why the
Administration would care about a California state RESOLUTION of all
things. Why does the Clinton Administration want to prevent a state
legislature from speaking its mind?
And what's with this attempt to claim "copyright" on that fax?
Please get some answers on this! The US Senate/House will be voting
on important encryption legislation in the coming days. The people of
this country deserves to have a open, informed, serious discussion of
one of the most important privacy issues of the information age. We
cannot afford to let a few intelligence and law enforcement agencies
dictate policy TO us against our will.
Ern