It is useful to look to the long-established standards in the law of
civil discovery, according to which a party may demand information from
a witness, but the witness may object, and the demandant must then
prove a specific need for the information in the interest of justice
that outweighs the privacy interest of the witness. But that is a
matter of judicial discretion, case by case and question by question,
not of statutorily mandated disclosure without proof of need.
I maintain that a right, to be a right, must be exercisable
anonymously, or in concert with others, unless a court orders
disclosure on proof of prevailing need on a particular question, and
then only for the purposes of the court, not for public dissemination.
-- Jon
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