Anonymity is key to "renewal and forgiveness, and these are all things that happen online now, " says Michael Godwin, a former counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
By selectively applying the rules only to large traders while other market participants remain safely cloaked, it violates the key principle that all investors should be afforded anonymity.
Dzhokhar communicated with his interrogators in writing, precluding the type of back-and-forth exchanges often crucial to establishing key facts, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly.