Clinton Administration Announces New Cybersecurity Proposals

Tags: 2000s Clinton Export Controls

Authors: Schlatheri, Libbie

Published: July 2000

URL: https://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/17/net.security/index.html

Abstract: On July 17, 2000, Libbie Schlatheir, a producer for CNN, issued a report detailing announcements by Clinton Administration officials regarding updates to its policy for encryption exports to the European Union and key trading partners. The updates, attributed largely to a speech by Clinton White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta, at the National Press Club, “liberalize[d] export controls on encryption, allowing more companies to export the technology to more end users… while maintaining a framework necessary to protect [U.S.] national security.” The new policy permitted American companies to export, with license exemption, any encryption product to any end user in the European Union, Austria, Norway, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Japan, New Zealand, and Switzerland. Additionally, the policy called for elimination of the 30-day waiting period and four cyber-security proposals on data security, privacy, and criminalization of cyber-crimes.