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Yale constitutional law professor Jed Rubenfeld makes a distinction that, I think, advances the debate over government and corporate surveillance:\u00a0 Privacy refers to the content of our communications, which is protected constitutionally.\u00a0 But the fact of our communications, which the NSA is exploiting, is not.\u00a0 What we need, Prof. Rubenfeld says, is legal protection for anonymity, so that individuals cannot be identified without due process.
\nFrom Jed Rubenfeld, We need a new jurisprudence of anonymity \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the world of data-gathering, the key concept for setting limits on government surveillance is privacy. But in the world of data-mining, the key is anonymity.<\/p>\n

Anonymity is very different from privacy. Walking the streets, you\u2019re not in private, but you may be anonymous if no one recognizes you. If you go into a store and pay cash for a book, what you\u2019re doing isn\u2019t private, but, again, you may be anonymous, and that anonymity might be very important to you. When people post material on a freely accessible Web site, their postings are public, not private \u2014 but they may well be anonymous. In such contexts, the question is not whether privacy should be honored but whether anonymity should be protected.<\/p>\n

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Anonymity can in some circumstances be a great freedom, worthy of protection. In others, it can encourage vicious behavior and enable crime. Solving the riddle of anonymity is the central question of the brave new digital world, even if our courts haven\u2019t quite yet caught on.<\/p>\n

[Keep reading. . .]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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