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Warning: Lawmakers will lock up the Net

By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News, 11/8/2001
<a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011107/tc/warning_lawmakers_will_lock_up_the_net_1.html">http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011107/tc/warning_lawmakers_will_lock_up_the_net_1.html>

An impatient Congress is likely to impose online security guidelines if
the computer and Net industries don't fix problems soon, warns a
lobbyist at the Trusted Computing conference.

The computer and Internet industries need to work together to promote
better security online, or lawmakers are likely to regulate the Web, a
Washington, D.C., lobbyist said at the Trusted Computing conference
Wednesday.

Congress has become impatient with the perceived lack of progress by
industry, said Michael O'Neill, a partner with lobbyist firm Preston
Gates Rouvelas Ellis &amp; Meeds, adding that government-mandated security
guidelines may be coming.

"Help yourselves," O'Neill told industry representatives at Microsoft's
security forum. "Fix security soon, or Washington will do it for you."
O'Neill represents the pro-encryption tech-industry group Americans for
Computer Privacy.

Government regulation has always been a big fear of the technology
industry. Under the Clinton administration, the Federal Trade Commission
looked ready to step in to regulate companies' data-collection practices
to guarantee baseline privacy for consumers. The Bush administration,
however, has seemed to favor a more hands-off approach.

"The case has not been adequately made for regulation," Mozelle
Thompson, one of five commissioners with the FTC, said during a morning
keynote address in which he called for the public and private sectors to
collaborate.

But Internet security affects more than consumers. Business and
government data are also at risk, and that could lead to more pressure
to legislate, O'Neill said, especially if terrorists use the Internet to
conduct attacks.

"Internet regulation is likely," he said. "Sooner or later, unless more
effort is put into computer security by industry, Congress is going to
want action on security. Not because it might be effective, but because
they need to do something."

Even before the Sept. 11 attacks, lawmakers were sounding out
legislation with an aim to better secure the Internet. Sen. Ernest F.
Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat and author of the controversial
Security Systems Standards and Certification Act, has repeatedly warned
that Congress may take a hand in security.

Yet many Internet industry representatives believe the government is not
ready to consider regulation.

The issue is too complex right now to be legislated, said Tatiana Gau,
senior vice president for integrity assurance at AOL Time Warner and a
conference attendee.

"It is less clear right now what are good baseline standards for
security," she said. "And the bar is going to constantly shift." Any
legislation that attempted to create a standard for security would be
outdated before it reached the president's desk, she added.

"People said privacy regulations were imminent a few years ago," Gau
said. "And self regulation has shown that industry can be responsible
about protecting itself and consumers."

Almost 200 industry representatives, policy-makers and security experts
are meeting at Microsoft's Trusted Computing conference this week.

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