The McCain bill is a very serious proposal. AOL, Disney, Hewlett-Packard all backed it last year.

There is a question of how secure you can make any e-mail system, ... especially if people are trying to hack it all the time.

We think this bill raises some good issues.

Last year, bills were introduced as discussion acts and no one really thought they'd move.

Incredible as it may seem, this is the first bill ever to comprehensively require the federal government to use the Internet to serve citizens.

Law enforcement has had very little trouble tracking down the perpetrators in these cases. So we should focus on making sure law enforcement stays up to date with the technologies and uses techniques that do not invade civil liberties.

Right now I think the case can be made that companies are losing business because of lack of trust, and it seems right now any way to help trust will help business.

It's too early to say whether an Internet privacy bill will be passed this year.

I was surprised by his opposition to the national ID card, but that's welcome news to us, ... try and monitor us.