lambda 2.09 - French Telco Act Censored?

jim bell jimbell at pacifier.com
Sat Jul 20 13:54:56 PDT 1996


At 09:41 PM 7/19/96 +0100, Jerome Thorel wrote:

>OECD FAILS TO ACT ON KEY-ESCROW ENCRYPTION; THE US ACCUSED OF "POLICY
>LAUNDERING"
>
>The Paris-based OECD, the 24-members club of industrialised nations, has
>failed to take a step towards international recongnition of key-escrow
>encryption. The meeting of June 26-28 in Paris, scheduled to take a firm
>decision about the possibility of law enforcement agencies to read
>electronic mail of private individuals and corporations, didn't succeed to
>act on a compromise. The OECD's general secretary has no special power to
>draw regulations and must find a common policy on the matter.
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>
>Sources said the US were willing to "use" the OECD as a "policy laundering"
>machine : to pressure the organisation in order to have the key escrow
>policy approved by the 24 countries. US intelligence officials would have
>been using it as a political weapon at home, where Congress,
>public-interests groups and industry pressure groups are on the verge to
>act against any key-escrow policy.



Lemme see...  The Europeans are now complaining about the US government 
pushing key escrow on them?  So where did that "emerging consensus" go?!?

Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com






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