On 15 September the Frankfurt District Court confirmed an earlier partial ruling in favour of the German web anonymiser AN.ON. According to this ruling, there was no legal ground for the request by the German Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation to record data about visitors to a specific website (see EDRI-gram 16 and 17).
The initiators of the project are confident about the outcome of their other appeal against the court order to hand over the single record they stored under the initial order. However, they seem less confident about the legislator. They urgently call on all users of the service to "defend the right to anonymity against plans in the German Parliament's Upper House to change this right into an obligation for providers for data retention."
District Court in Frankfurt confirms legal claim of AN.ON (18.09.2003)
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