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Nominee for Attorney General May Support Privacy

John Ashcroft, the Bush administration�s nominee for Attorney General, has been a strong advocate of lifting export controls on encryption technology. This support for encryption may foreshadow his stand on the Carnivore system.

US Attorney General nominee is pro-privacy, The Register, January 4, 2001.