Is knowledge of an individual’s real name more or less valuable than knowledge of the efforts exerted in an attempt to conceal it? This is a question we might usefully pose as the deadline approaches for receipt by the Inquiry into Undercover Policing of responses to its latest set of “minded to” decisions on anonymity applications. In eight out of the nine cases under consideration, the inquiry chair is “minded to” issue restriction orders in respect of the real names of th