President Clinton will endorse Ira Magaziner's broad e-commerce plan at a White House event Monday morning, reaffirming the Clinton administration's opposition to data collection regulations and commitment to more spending on Internet projects.
At the ceremony, Clinton is expected to bid farewell to aide Magaziner, who plans to retire at the end of the year.
The e-commerce plan, a successor to Magaziner's earlier Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, is expected to call for a series of measures to bolster the digital economy. Magaziner is expected to once again reaffirm his "hands off" stance on Internet regulation, heading off Federal Communications Commission moves to regulate high-speed Internet access.
According to the New York Times, the plan also calls for investing in Internet infrastructure for developing nations.
But the plan is not likely to resolve the continuing impasse over a presidential executive order restricting US corporations from selling strong encryption products overseas, a rule they say hurts American competitiveness. The Justice Department, FBI, and NSA have lobbied for even stricter controls.
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