CDR: Canada outlaws anonymous remailers (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily News, September 15, 2000)

[R. A. Hettinga]

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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