Chander quoted in LA Daily Journal on Global Internet Regulation

Anupam Chander, professor of law and a leading scholar in the law of globalization and digitization, was quoted in the Los Angeles Daily Journal on a bill before Congress that would regulate the actions of Internet companies in China.

The legislation, known as the Global Online Freedom Act, would prohibit U.S. companies that collect personal information about their customers from passing on information to certain governments, unless they get permission from the U.S. government. It also would require such businesses to report episodes of censorship to the State Department and would stop American Internet companies operating overseas from jamming Web sites containing information supported by the U.S. government.

According to Chander, experts foresee a number of problems if the law does pass, not least is the fact that it would require the American companies to pass information about censorship demands to the U.S. government rather than making the details available publicly. "Other countries would be irritated by that notion," Chander said in the article. "It masquerades as transparency."

Los Angeles Daily Journal/November 26, 2007 (registration reguired)