(Post From PornGossip.com.)
A report on unlawful Internet conduct was released yesterday [3/9/2000] by Commerce Secretary William Daley, at a Justice Department press conference.
The report summarized the conclusions of a working group led by Attorney General Janet Reno, which President Clinton had put together last August. However, the group finished its work prior to the Denial of Service Attacks that shut down many web sites last month. More training and support were recommended for law enforcement. In addition, better attention should be paid to promotion of ethical use of the Internet, so called "cyberethics". The report says that current laws can protect against most online hacks.
Daley also recommended a kind of Neighborhood Watch in online communities, e-businesses keeping an eye on each other. He said, "I think they should share their experiences and technologies with law enforcement...Businesses must step up their own efforts to make the Internet more secure and not wait for cybercops to be expanded."
There are concerns about the Fourth Amendment. Civil liberties groups are saying that the report raises privacy concerns offered for these conclusions, no statistics. The ACLU rejected the report's conclusion that anonymity of Internet users was a "thorny issue". The ACLU said, "An end to Internet anonymity would chill free expression in cyberspace and strip away one of the key structural privacy protections enjoyed by Internet users."
And as you know, anonymity is the cornerstone of Online Adult Entertainment. What might it mean if Big (government/police) and Little Brothers (ISPs/hosting companies) were watching everything that an Internet user and possible customer were doing?
Links
The ACLU.
The Center for Democracy and Technology.