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Canada outlaws anonymous remailers (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Fri Sep 15 16:52:54 2000
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:58:21 -0400
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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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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