[This message is crossposted from the POLITECH mailing list.] Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:14:53 -0500 To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> From: Patrick Ball <pball@umich.edu> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: March 26, 1999 Contact: Michael Lamb (619) 220-8277 press@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@eff.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to majordomo@vorlon.mit.edu with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Send mail for the 'huridocs-tech' list to 'huridocs-tech@hrea.org'. Mail administrative request to 'majordomo@hrea.org'. For additional assistance, send mail to: 'owner-huridocs-tech@hrea.org'. Archives of previous messages posted to the list can be found at: http://www.human-rights.net/huridocs-tech.
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