CDT Releases "Internet Watch List" of Legislation to be Stopped in 2006

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Center for Democracy and Technology
Releases "Internet Watch List" of Legislation to be Stopped in 2006

WASHINGTON -- As Congress mounts its final push before the midterm elections, a number of bills that threaten the bedrock of Internet privacy and civil liberties could either come up for votes or worm their way into larger legislative packages that end up being rushed into law.

Today, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) issued its "Internet Watch List," which contains nine legislative efforts that cannot be allowed to succeed in the so-called "silly season" at the end of the 109th Congress. The watch list is online at http://www.cdt.org/legislation/2006watchlist.php .

"We always see bad bills moving in the waning days of the session, but this year's crop is particularly troubling," CDT Executive Director Leslie Harris said. "Taken together, these measures threaten to undermine our First and Fourth Amendment rights; weaken our privacy; hobble technological innovation; and change the fundamental nature of the Internet for the worse. If even one of these misguided legislative gambits succeeds we will all be the worse for it."

Full story at: http://www.cdt.org/press/20060913press.php

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