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Barking anonymously

posted by:Alex Cameron // 11:50 AM // February 25, 2005 // Digital Democracy: law, policy and politics

"So remember, on the Internet, your ISP knows you're not a dog, and your adversary is only a subpoena away from compromising your constitutionally-protected right to bark anonymously."

Fred von Lohmann has written a short piece on the threat that ISPs pose to our online anonymity. The constitutional issues are US-specific but the article is a nice little read and has relevance in the Canadian context.

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