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[FYI] (Fwd) Canada outlaws anonymous remailers
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- Subject: [FYI] (Fwd) Canada outlaws anonymous remailers
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:24:33 +0200
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: Canada outlaws anonymous remailers (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily
News, September 15, 2000)
I wonder what this does to Zero Knowledge Systems?
Cheers,
RAH
At 3:52 AM -0700 on 9/15/00, GigaLaw.com wrote:
> Canadian Ruling Could Unmask Anonymous E-mailers
> Canadian e-mailers can no longer hide behind a cloak of
> anonymity if
> reasonable grounds exist to show they've distributed defamatory
> statements over the Internet. The change in Canadian law came after
> a landmark court ruling this week when an Ontario Superior Court
> Justice ordered Internet service provider iPRIMUS Inc. of Toronto to
> reveal the identity of an anonymous e-mailer.
> Read the article: Wired News @
> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,38734,00.html
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