The Rise of Regulatory Initiatives
… to governmental intervention
- From 1998 onwards: an upsurge in legislation
- USA: DMCA (1998), COPPA (1998), Can Spam Act (2003), …
- EU: More than 15 directives in a few years
- France: Laws on electronic signature and cryptography (2000), data retention (2001), electronic voting (2004), e-commerce (2004), data protection (2004), …
- Limits: Governmental intervention having little impact of some major
issues
- Spamming
- Copyright enforcement issues …