Re: FW: SEC Rule Announcement

[Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>]

Peter is quite right that the interesting part is HOME computers. It's the
Electronic Messaging Association, BTW. My article with comments from them,
SEC, NASD, ACLU, etc. is at:

   http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1731,00.html

The SEC may have approved a rule that violates federal law.

-Declan


At 17:00 -0500 2/4/98, Trei, Peter wrote:
>[sorry if you get this twice - pt]
>
>I have not been able to confirm the claim in this letter - the EMA
>does not seem to have a web site. Note that it refers to
>employers monitoring employee's HOME computers.
>
>Peter Trei
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Larry Layten [SMTP:larry@ljl.com]
>> Sent:	Wednesday, February 04, 1998 11:04 AM
>> To:	cryptography@c2.net
>> Subject:	SEC Rule Announcement
>>
>> I received information in an Electronic Mail Association (EMA)
>> bulletin that said the Securities and Exchange Commission
>> approved a rule that would go into effect February 15th that
>> requires securities employers to have the ability to monitor
>> electronic communications between employees and customers
>> on employees' home computers or through third party systems.
>>
>> Does anyone have any more information on this and how it
>> might apply to encrypted email?
>>
>> Larry