CDR: Re: Canada outlaws anonymous remailers (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily News, September 15, 2000)
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Fri Sep 15 09:40:52 PDT 2000
At 10:58 AM -0400 9/15/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>I wonder what this does to Zero Knowledge Systems?
>...
>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.
It's what many of us predicted (in writing, here) when it was
announced that ZKS would locate in Canada because of (or influenced
by) Canada's supposedly freeer policies on encryption. I wrote at the
time, as others did, that Canada's supposedly "free export policy"
was likely temporary and was more of a "show of independence" against
what they perceived to be U.S. control and influence.
Fact is, as we wrote at the time, Canada lacks a solid constitution
for protection of basic liberties. Sure, defenders will scurry to
point out, Canada now _has_ a charter/constitution. But it has not
been the bedrock that the U.S.C. has been, nor has it had a history
of important tests.
Canada is fundamentally an ad hocracy.
As for the effect on ZKS, I haven't seen any actual uses of Freedom,
or users of it, so I doubt there will be much effect at all.
--Tim May
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