Mark Weston, technology law specialist at MAB Law, says the ruling was another link in the chain of judicial authority saying that you cannot be anonymous.
If they can find out who you are, you aren't "anonymous," you are "confidential." Anonymous means no trail was created which might be examined to disclose your identity, and no individuals are in possession of that information, and might disclose it. Confidential means the information exists, but that people have promised to keep it secret, until they change their minds. There is a vast difference, for instance, between confidential HIV testing, and anonymous HIV testing. When I want to be anonymous online, I rely on technology, not peoples promises, and if this individual had been truly anonymous, he would not have been identified. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"