Congress's Upcoming Initiatives on Internet Privacy and E-Commerce

Washington is more eager than ever to get its arms around the Internet, and much of the work of the 107th Congress will revolve around e-commerce and other online issues. For all the conventional hand-wringing over the perceived perils of a . . . Washington is more eager than ever to get its arms around the Internet, and much of the work of the 107th Congress will revolve around e-commerce and other online issues. For all the conventional hand-wringing over the perceived perils of a Congress closely divided along party lines, insiders say e-commerce-related initiatives will sidestep partisan loyalties. Thoroughly mulled over in the last Congress, online issues--including measures to regulate security, taxes, copyrights, broadband deployment and Internet telephony--are ripe for action.

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