Contact our webmaster . The inability of the laws of man to keep in step with the bounds of common sense in the electronic age fell into sharp relief recently when the European Union implemented its Data Protection Directive last October. Imagine yourself in court for writing about a person over the Internet without that person's permission, criticizing someone without permission, or compiling one of the aforementioned lists of references.
Privacy is important.
ITAA strongly supports relaxing US export laws on encryption, because encryption helps to protect communications. No one argues that the right to privacy should be trampled in the foot race to greater corporate profits or important government information gathering. But neither should excessive concerns erect new barriers to realizing the global information economy. Nor should they exceed the privacy limits imposed in the physical world. Consumers, not governments, must decide how much privacy they are willing to forego in return for greater choice, convenience, and affordability.