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Re: Data Privacy Laws
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In <[email protected]>, on 04/30/97 at 02:34 PM,
Hodge Podge <[email protected]> said:
>Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= ([email protected]) wrote:
>>It is worth noting that the "Data Privacy Commissioners" in Germany
>>(equivalent to the British Data Protection Registrar) are beginning to
>>advocate technologies such as anonymous e-cash, pre-paid chipcards,
>>pseudonyms, and of course encryption, rather than more laws.
>But according to alt.security.pgp (4/28/97):
>BONN, Germany (Reuter) -- A German cabinet minister called Monday for
>increased efforts to fight crime on the Internet and demanded that
>cyber-sheriffs have keys to unlock coded messages.
>Interior Minister Manfred Kanther told a conference ....."The technical
>and organizational competence of agencies charged with fighting computer
>crime must be strengthened."
>"The criminals are hiding in the anonymity of the networks, wiping their
>electronic tracks." Kanther said.
>So clearly the government disagrees.
Actually they probably do not dissagree. I am sure that the German
Government will come to agreement that "anonymity" only means anonymity
from civilians not anonymity from government. I am sure that the "Data
Privacy Commissioners" & the Interior Dept. will be in agrement solong as
everything is properly GAKed. :(
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