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Witness protection in the age of Facebook is a whole lot more complicated because protecting your privacy in an online age is a minefield

From Witness for the prosecution | Consult Hyperion

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An identity service founded on the principles of post-modern relativism thus has no problem dealing with the multiple identities. In essence, it would treat all identities as pseudonyms. The use of the pseudonym that happened to coincide with your “real” name would not be a special case.

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