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1 CIS S 52167
TITLE: Internet
Security and Privacy
CIS-NO: 2001-S521-67
SOURCE: Committee on the Judiciary. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-1027
DATE: May 25, 2000
LENGTH: iii+104 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1042-A; 1042-B
SUDOC: Y4.J89/2:S.HRG.106-1027
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-27500-2.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. J-106-86. Hearing to
consider S. 2448, the Internet Integrity and Critical Infrastructure Protection
Act, to:
a. Increase criminal penalties established under
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for computer crimes, including
denial-of-service attacks in which a malicious program is deployed to prevent
legitimate users from accessing Internet sites.
b. Expand
law enforcement agency ability to investigate and prosecute crimes involving
computers, and enhance law enforcement agency authority to cooperate with
computer crime investigations by foreign jurisdictions.
c.
Require commercial Web sites to give visitors notice of data collection and
sharing practices and the opportunity to request that their personal
information not be disclosed.
Supplementary material (p.
27-28, 81-104) includes an article, witnesses' written replies to Committee
questions, and correspondence.
CONTENT-NOTATION:
Internet privacy protection and security improvement, measures
estab
BILLS: 106
S. 2448
DESCRIPTORS:
COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATION SECURITY; INTERNET; CRIME AND CRIMINALS;
SENTENCES, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE; RIGHT OF PRIVACY; INFORMATION
SERVICES AND SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT; INTERNET
INTEGRITY AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION ACT; COMPUTER FRAUD AND ABUSE
ACT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; JURISDICTION
01-S521-67 TESTIMONY NO: 1
May 25, 2000 p. 3-26, 29
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
VATIS, MICHAEL A. (Director, National
Infrastructure Protection Center, FBI)
ROBINSON, JAMES K.
(Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice)
STATEMENTS:
Scope of cybercrime problem;
perspectives on S. 2448.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Internet privacy protection and security
improvement, measures estab
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION; DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
01-S521-67 TESTIMONY NO: 2 May 25,
2000 p. 30-79, 81-104
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
HEIMAN, BRUCE J. (Executive Director, Americans for
Computer Privacy)
PETHIA, RICHARD D.
(Manager, Survivable Systems Initiative and CERT Coordination Center, Software
Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
RICHARDS, JEFF B. (Executive Director, Internet Alliance)
DEMPSEY, JAMES X. (Senior Staff Counsel, Center for
Democracy and Technology)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Importance of cooperative partnership between Government
and industry in cybersecurity efforts, in context of concerns regarding
cybersecurity legislative proposals; need for enhanced Internet security
measures, with related recommendations; support for S. 2448; views on
relationship between Internet security proposals and related fourth amendment
privacy rights.
INSERTION:
-- Internet Alliance "International Policy Framework for
Internet Law Enforcement and Security" white paper, May 2000 (p. 44-57).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Internet
privacy protection and security improvement, measures estab
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
AMERICANS FOR
COMPUTER PRIVACY; GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS; CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
LOAD-DATE: January 31, 2002 
