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Anonymity, like privacy, is being defined as a right of the consumer. In the case of Rural/Metro v. Does, the company Rural/Metro Corporation issued a third-party subpoena to the online service provider Yahoo!. The subpoena required Yahoo! to reveal the identities of the defendants and portions of their online correspondence. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is defending the defendants to promote the cause of Internet anonymity. Yahoo! was sued in 2000 for obeying such a subpoena without the Yahoo! user's consent. The EFF is one of many organizations that has been promoting the cause of anonymity. First Amendment rights of being able to speak anonymously on issues that otherwise would not become public are the heart of ...
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