EU Legislative Proposal to Outlaw Anonymous E-Mail (fwd)

[Magical Angel Creamy Mami <waste@zor.hut.fi>]

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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 19:13:06 +0100
From: Caspar Bowden <cb@fipr.org>
Reply-To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
To: "Ukcrypto (E-mail)" <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: EU Legislative Proposal to Outlaw Anonymous E-Mail

http://www2.europarl.eu.int/dg7-bin/seid.pl?APP=RAPPORT+PRG=DOCRAPPORT+FILE=
PE-RAPPORT-A4-0141-99-EN+LANGUE=EN

REPORT on the draft Joint Action, adopted by the Council on the basis of
Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union, to combat child pornography on
the Internet (10850/5/98 - C4-0674/98 - 98/0917(CNS))

Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs

Search EXPLANATORY STATEMENT for...
"(f) Internet providers undertake to retain for at
     least three months traffic-related data;
 (g) the sending of anonymous e-mail is prohibited."

(g) evidently refers to Amendment 16, Article 3 (-1)(new)

"{[Member States] shall in this context take the following measures
prompting Internet providers:}
to ensure that the identity of persons who have set up an electronic mail
(e-mail) address can be ascertained"

Anyone any further information ?
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Caspar Bowden                    http://www.fipr.org
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
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