[kan-l] huridocs-tech Anonymizer.com Kosovo privacy project

[Teresa Crawford]

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>Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:19:05 +0200
>To: huridocs-tech at hrea.org
>From: Frank Elbers <frank at hrea.nl>
>Subject: huridocs-tech Anonymizer.com Kosovo privacy project
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>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:14:53 -0500
>To: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
>From: Patrick Ball <pball at umich.edu>
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>FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE
>DATE:  March 26, 1999
>Contact:  Michael Lamb
>(619) 220-8277
>press at anonymizer.com
>
>Anonymizer.com launches Kosovo Privacy Project to Protect Online
>Communication in Yugoslavia and Kosovo.
>
>March 26, 1999- Anonymizer, the leading and trusted provider of online
>privacy services, today announced the launch of the Kosovo Privacy Project.
>While the Internet provides a means of bypassing attempts of censorship by
>Serbian authorities, it does put those at risk inside the region reporting
>such information. Anonymizer has deployed its anonymous and secure email
>and Web surfing services to ensure the protection of these informants from
>reprisal from Serbian officials through the Kosovo Privacy Project.
>
>"If someone is being monitored, the authorities will be able to tell they
>are connected to the Anonymizer server, but will not be able to determine what
>they are communicating or to whom," said Lance Cottrell, CEO of Anonymizer
>and an expert in the field of online security and encryption.
>
>Alex Fowler, the public affairs director for the Electronic Frontier
>Foundation, conceived the project.
>
>"I am seeing messages traveling and being posted on Web pages that are just
>as easy for me to read as they are for Milosevic and his government agents
>to see," said Fowler.
>
>"Encrypted and anonymous communication is very important for human
>rights activists, and for anyone who needs to denounce violations of human
>rights committed by repressive regimes." said Patrick Ball, Deputy Director
>of the AAAS Science and Human Rights program. "The actions taken today by the
>Yugoslav government and Serbian paramilitary units show why people who are
>reporting human rights violations need to be protected from exposure: if
>they aren't protected by these technologies, they will be killed".
>
>The anonymous email and Web surfing services are entirely Web-based and
>require no software downloads, specific operating systems, or versions.
>Anyone with access to an Internet connection and browser can immediately and
>securely use the Anonymizer services.
>
>Visit the Kosovo Privacy Project site here:
>
>http://www.anonymizer.com/kosovo
>
>About Anonymizer
>Anonymizer.com is a pioneer in Internet privacy technologies, and the most
>popular and trusted name in delivering online privacy services.
>Anonymizer.com, today, has many thousand subscribers to its paid services
>and makes anonymous over 9 million Web pages a month.
>
>Anonymizer originally launched in 1996 to provide comprehensive online
>services for protection of identity on the Internet.  Available services
>include Anonymizer Surfing; Anonymizer Email; Anonymizer Dialup; and
>Anonymizer Publishing.  Anonymizer Surfing effectively works as a middleman
>between web surfers and web hosts.  In addition, Anonymizer Surfing prevents
>"cookies" from being placed on users' hard drives, java and javascript.
>Thus, blocking all personal information from the websites users visit.
>
>Lance Cottrell, founder and CEO of Anonymizer.com, authored the world's most
>secure anonymous remailer, Mixmaster and has been active for many years in
>promoting free speech.
>
>Lance Cottrell is available for interviews regarding this timely topic.
>Interested media should contact Michael Lamb at (619) 220-8277.
>
>About the Electronic Frontier Foundation
>The Electronic Frontier Foundation is one of the leading civil liberties
>organizations devoted to ensuring that the Internet remains the world's
>first truly global vehicle for free speech, and that the privacy and
>security of all on-line communication is preserved.  Founded in 1990 as a
>nonprofit, public interest organization, EFF is based in San Francisco,
>California. EFF maintains an extensive archive of information on encryption
>policy, privacy, and free speech at http://www.eff.org.
>
>Contact:
>Alex Fowler
>EFF Director of Public Affairs
>415 436 9333, x103;
>afowler at eff.org
>
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