The crime problem that I worry about most here is all of the fraud, all of the abuse, all of the harassment, all of the invasion of privacy that is allowed to go on now in the absence of good security. That is the criminal problem that is being created today by what I think is a muddle of federal policies which deny people access to technology that can help them protect their privacy.
Predictor: Weitzner, Daniel J.
Prediction, in context:As a member of a special panel at a policy debate about the Clipper Chip sponsored in January 1995 by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Daniel Weitzner, deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, said: ”Clipper as a policy solution for all practical purposes is dead, and we now have to move on and try to find some kind of policy framework … While nothing is happening, people who use all sorts of electronic communications are having their privacy threatened in a very practical way. The Clinton Administration, IBM, all sorts of people between agree that we are moving rapiding into an arena where more and more personal information, health records, political debates, romance and, yes, criminal activity are all happening online. I must say that the crime problem that I worry about most here is all of the fraud, all of the abuse, all of the harassment, all of the invasion of privacy that is allowed to go on now in the absence of good security. That is the criminal problem that is being created today by what I think is a muddle of federal policies which deny people access to technology that can help them protect their privacy.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Panel Discussion on the Clipper Chip
Title, headline, chapter name: The Clipper Chip: Should the Government Control the Master Keys to Electronic Commerce?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/clipper/ny-debate-jan-19-95.txt
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