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To build effective missile defenses, the Pentagon must overcome the following: (1) bureaucratic inertia from 30-years of Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty constraints that blocked even testing of the most effective defense concepts & (2) given that President Bush withdrew from the ABM Treaty last June 13, the collective amnesia within the Pentagon, which ignores Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) technical achievements of the Reagan-Bush I years. This amnesia results from the Clinton administration's purge of the most advanced SDI technology & its emphasis on making, at most, minor modifications to ground-based defenses permitted by the ABM Treaty, rather than investing in more effective US sea-, space-, & air-based defenses that could not even be tested under that Treaty. Such programs could be revived to field more effective defenses in the near future. 15 Figures, 1 Appendix. Adapted from the source document.

In 1986, Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act ("ECPA") to update and clarify federal privacy protections and standards in light of changes in new technologies. Since, then, however, the Internet has grown immensely and this article discusses whether a new federal legislation is needed to meet the challenge. The author starts his analysis by defining what is "information privacy right." Then, he discusses how this right is been used and misused on the Internet. Following such definition, he discussed the ECPA Title II in detail. He analyses provisions of the ECPA, including section 2701, the definition of "access," sections 2702, 2703, 2707 and 2712. Consequently, he pointed the loopholes in these provisions such that the ECPA is not adequate to protect an individual's personal information. Hence, he proposes amendments to the ECPA, ranging from new definitions to damages provisions. He cautions readers by quoting: "technology propels us forward, and we react to the social consequences only after the fact … IT may dawn on us too late that privacy should have been saved along the way." One way to stop the erosion of individual's online privacy rights is by amending ECPA Title II to prohibit unlawful disclosure of electronic record.

In 1986, Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act ("ECPA") to update and clarify federal privacy protections and standards in light of changes in new technologies. Since, then, however, the Internet has grown immensely and this article discusses whether a new federal legislation is needed to meet the challenge. The author starts his analysis by defining what is "information privacy right." Then, he discusses how this right is been used and misused on the Internet. Following such definition, he discussed the ECPA Title II in detail. He analyses provisions of the ECPA, including section 2701, the definition of "access," sections 2702, 2703, 2707 and 2712. Consequently, he pointed the loopholes in these provisions such that the ECPA is not adequate to protect an individual's personal information. Hence, he proposes amendments to the ECPA, ranging from new definitions to damages provisions. He cautions readers by quoting: "technology propels us forward, and we react to the social consequences only after the fact … IT may dawn on us too late that privacy should have been saved along the way." One way to stop the erosion of individual's online privacy rights is by amending ECPA Title II to prohibit unlawful disclosure of electronic record.

Favors deployment of a worldwide layered missile defense system by the US and possible withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with Russia.

View that the US needs a strong defense system against missiles carrying weapons of mass destruction and should therefore withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty which places restraints on defense systems building. In light of possession of missiles by China and Russia and the likelihood that they will make the material and technology needed for missile production available to other countries such as Iran; weapons of mass destruction include nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.