Abstract
This chapter looks into empowering anonymity through privacy laws. It highlights the risk of sensitive, identifying data exiting within private corporate databases, which could be used or bought by other companies and increase the vulnerability to hackers. Thus, privacy laws can help empower anonymity while not restricting the use of publicly available information, and such attempts would face First Amendment challenges. Surveillance capitalism allowed companies to maintain vast amounts of information about people, which could be used to unmask people who had attempted to be anonymous. The chapter also considers the utility of geolocation points from smartphones as identifiers. Additionally, it discusses the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, which restricts the ability of companies to process Europeans' personal information and provides broad rights to request access and deletion of the personal information that companies hold.
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