percipient:
- : one that perceives
- : a person on whose mind a telepathic impulse or message is held to fall [Merriam-Webster]
Noted in the Short Circuit column of The Volokh Conspiracy:
Federal agents investigating company that may have ripped off the VA want to interview eight potentially percipient reviewers who criticized the company online. Must Glassdoor, a platform that allows employees to anonymously review employers, reveal the reviewers’ identities to the gov’t? Yes, says the Ninth Circuit; there is no protected right to anonymous speech here.
