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Anonymity, often considered a cornerstone of democracy and a First Amendment guarantee, is easier to attain than ever before, due to the emergence of cyberspace (du Pont 2001, p. 191).
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A version of this chapter was published in Complex 3/06—Kierkegaard (2006).
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Chawki, M., Darwish, A., Khan, M.A., Tyagi, S. (2015). Anonymity, Privacy and Security Issues in Cyberworld. In: Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 593. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15150-2_7
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