[freehaven-dev] articles on anonymity

[dmolnar@belegost.mit.edu]

More fun and fuel :

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE :
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Whoever the AAAS is, they did a study on the "effects of anonymous and
pseudonymous communications on the Internet"

http://www.aaas.org/spp/anon/

The site includes some "case studies" which try to point out 
issues with anonymity and pseudonymity. It's worth noting that most
of these cases deal with issues of _credibility of anonymous speech_ and
__impact of anonymity on discussion__ -- they include such things as 
anonymous reports to police e-mail addresses, anonymous hate postings,
and whistleblowing. 

There does not seem to be any discussion of the "intellectual property"
issues which seem to spring up when "data havens" are mentioned. 

They also link to an issue of _The Information Society_ devoted to
"Anonymity on the Internet." Only abstracts are available, though. 


MICHAEL FROOMKIN :
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Michael Froomkin is a professor at the University of Miami school of Law.
He has been known to hang out on cypherpunks. He also contributed the
"legal view" to the AAAS project.

1996 article on "Flood Control on the Information Ocean : Living with
Anonymity, Digital Cash, and Distributed Databases"
http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/ocean.htm

1996 article on "The Internet As A Source of Regulatory Arbitrage" 
http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/arbitr.htm


CATO INSTITUTE :
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Libertarian "think-tank." It's not surprising that they come down in favor
of anonymity. The justification based on U.S. Constitutional grounds is 
interesting, insofar as it is specific to the U.S. and seems to shift the
ground to a legal instead of moral question...

"Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet"
http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-054es.html