From: Hodge Podge <hodgepodge@nym.alias.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 07:34:18 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Data Privacy Laws
Message-ID: <19970430143414.10988.qmail@nym.alias.net>
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Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?= (3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de) 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.

	-- HP


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