Washington Focus: Year 2000 Wrapup

Towards the end of 2000, the main legal and ethical issues exercising the ANA in the USA were privacy, media violence, direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, food and tobacco advertising, and advertising in schools.

Washington Focus Year 2000 Wrapup

Daniel L. Jaffe, ANA Washington Office

It looks like the Year 2000 may go down in history as the year not of the Millennium Bug, but as the year when Americans got the privacy bug.

The public’s heightened privacy concerns should be no surprise. Underlying this heightened emphasis on privacy is a theme that has run through many legislative initiatives over the past several years: the strong desire for personal security and protection, especially when it comes to children.

Whether the issue is privacy, sex and violence in the entertainment media, or the...

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