{"id":58601,"date":"2024-08-13T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58601"},"modified":"2024-08-13T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:44:00","slug":"new-law-review-whos-got-mail-the-fourth-amendment-impact-of-pseudonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58601","title":{"rendered":"New Law Review: Who&#8217;s Got Mail? The Fourth Amendment Impact of Pseudonyms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Timothy S. Iversen, Comment: <a href=\"https:\/\/lawreview.gmu.edu\/print__issues\/whos-got-mail-the-fourth-amendment-impact-of-pseudonyms\/\">Who&#8217;s Got Mail? The Fourth Amendment Impact of Pseudonyms<\/a>, 31 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 961 (Spring 2024):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>What do online drug dealers and Alexander Hamilton have in common? They use pseudonyms. While Hamilton used the pseudonym Publius in the Federalist Papers to help forge a nation, online drug dealers use pseudonyms to poison citizens. Pseudonyms help mask ownership of illegal drugs during delivery to the customer. And who do those online drug dealers prefer as their business partner for making deliveries? The federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States Postal Service (\u201cUSPS\u201d or \u201cPostal Service\u201d) is aware of this problem. In a sample of online advertisements for illegal drugs, sellers noted their preference for utilizing the Postal Service, touted its reliability, and even offered reshipments for unsuccessful deliveries. One \u201ccocaine trafficker claimed to have used the Postal Service to successfully distribute nearly 4,000 shipments, stating that they had a 100 percent delivery success rate.\u201d Using pseudonyms helps achieve this high success rate by avoiding the scrutiny that might follow from using their real names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy S. Iversen, Comment: Who&#8217;s Got Mail? The Fourth Amendment Impact of Pseudonyms, 31 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 961 (Spring 2024):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-and-packages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58602,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58601\/revisions\/58602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}