Professor A. Michael Froomkin recently published a chapter "Pseudonyms by Another Name: Identity Management in a Time of Surveillance" in the book Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions. In the chapter, Professor Froomkin argues that we need ways to hide our transactions, reading habits, and movements from those who would profile us, and that allowing people to create multiple identities that could go on line, and could buy things both online and off, would be one way to prevent the creation of giant all-encompassing digital dossiers. Even if law enforcement was given the power to link those alternate identities to us for good cause, we'd still have more day-to-day privacy than otherwise seems likely. Professor Froomkin, the Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law, currently teaches Internet Law, Administrative Law, Torts and Jurisprudence. He has also taught Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure I International Law, and Trademark, and seminars in Intellectual Property in the Digital Era, Internet Governance, Law & Games, Regulation of Digital Identity, and Electronic Commerce.
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