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The Electronic Communications Act 2000 (c.7) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that: *Regulates the provision of cryptographic services in the UK (ss.1-6); and *Confirms the legal status of electronic signatures (ss.7-10). The United Kingdom government had come to the conclusion that encryption, encryption services and electronic signatures would be important to e-commerce in the UK.〔 By 1999, however, only the security services still hankered after key escrow. So a "sunset clause" was put in the bill. The May 2000 Electronic Communications Act gave the Home Office the power to create a registration regime for encryption services. This was given a five-year period before it would automatically lapse. The five years expired in May 2006 and the legislation granting such a power disappeared from the statute book. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Electronic Communications Act 2000」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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