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ACLU Letter to Secretary-General of the International Telecommunicaiton Union (9/30/2008)

Regarding the tracking of the source of internet communications

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Description: We are writing to express our concern regarding the International Telecommunication Union-Standardization’s (ITU-T) decision to draft technical standards for tracking the source of Internet communications without input from civil society organizations. According to news reports, the ITU has initiated a process “to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.”
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