David L. Aaron
David Laurence Aaron (born August 21, 1938) is an American diplomat and writer who served in the Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton administrations.[6] During his time at the White House, Aaron made a name for himself in foreign policy circles and was recognized as a rising star in the Democratic Party.Shortly after Carter's inauguration, Aaron attended the Bilderberg Conference, in which he undertook lengthy private discussions with German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.He also wrote a television documentary, "The Lessons of the Gulf War", hosted by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff William J. Crowe.In 1993 he became United States Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris,[8] and in 1996 was assigned the additional job of White House Special Envoy for Cryptography.As Special Envoy for Cryptography, Aaron pushed for a global standard that would require computer users with high grade encryption to submit keys to their codes for scrambling data to an independent authority, which would hold them in escrow and make them available to law enforcement only under a court order.In 1997 he was appointed Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, where ironically he negotiated privacy rules with the European Union on the handling of personal data.