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To: Les H who wrote (41801)	4/7/1999 2:48:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 67261

Algore violates Algore's Children's Online Privacy Protection Act D'OHHH!!!! YET ANOTHER CYBER-GAFFE FROM THE "FATHER OF THE INTERNET" Internet creator Al Gore finally became the last of the declared and undeclared Presidential candidates to unveil a web site yesterday, and promptly found himself running afoul of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act -- a law Gore claimed credit for in his other career as Vice President. "Instead of searching for hyper-links, the 'Father of the Internet' was still looking for 'controlling legal authority,'" joked Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson. He explained that when Gore unveiled his web site last night, it contained a "Just for Kids" section which asked children for their names, e-mail addresses and zip codes. Problem is, the new Children's Online Privacy Protection Act will make it illegal to ask children such questions on a commercial web site without first obtaining the parents' permission - as Gore ought to know, having claimed to have "championed" that very law. A news release from the Office of the Vice President dated January 24, 1999 entitled "Vice President Gore: Leading America in the Information Age," gives Gore credit for having "championed" the legislation. Additionally, in a statement on June 4, 1998, Gore was sharply critical of private-sector web marketers who asked questions similar to those on his web page. "Many Websites failed to meet a minimal requirement of protecting a privacy policy," Gore said at the time. "The private sector," he chided, "needs to do more to implement meaningful, enforceable, privacy standards." When an Associated Press reporter pointed out the latest cyber-gaffe by the Vice President's team of self-described "high technology experts," they scrambled to disable the offending section of the web page in time for the official opening of the website - the last such site to be unveiled by any Presidential candidate, incidentally - last night. "I guess designing a political web page was a lot easier for Al Gore back when he could use taxpayer-paid White House staff members to do it," quipped Nicholson. He recalled an incident in January, 1998 when Michael Gill, a political director in the Vice President's office, registered the "Gore2000.org" web site domain name for the "Friends of Al Gore" political action committee using his White House office and phone number as points of official contact. rnc.org