The writing life has always been a risky business. Writers have dodged kings and popes, tyrants and megalomaniacs. But for female writers, the cruelest judge of all has often been society. Society has ...

Earlier this week when Google Plus announced changes to its name policy, I was quick to point out that what was being reported as the ability to create and use pseudonyms on the service was not what ...

We sue educational institutions when our clients have been wrongfully expelled or suspended for violating a college’s Title IX sexual misconduct policy. When we file these federal lawsuits, we do not ...

Hollywood movie directors once used the pseudonym Allen Smithee on films they didn't want their names attached to. Alan Smithee was a loophole that allowed filmmakers to remove their names from movies ...

Online, I use my real name for many things. But sometimes, I prefer to use a pseudonym. Not because I want to anonymously harass people or post incendiary comments unscathed; no, I simply want to ...

“Carmen Mola is not, like all the lies we’ve been telling, a university professor,” one of the authors said after the shocking revelation Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human ...

We were recently having one of our interminable discussions on the Identity Gang mailing list (this was the privacy vs. anonymity discussion which dates back, oh, dozens of years) when Oracle’s ...

Italian scholar Eusebio Filopatro (pseudonym) never expected his pseudonym would make him the center of a news incident. When the Global Times (GT) was maliciously attacked and slandered by certain ...

From Judge John Kralik's decision in Dylan v. Doe (Cal. Super. Ct. L.A. County Aug. 2, 2024); the private school has identified itself as Campbell Hall, a prominent L.A. school, though the ex-player's ...