Anonymous Accounts

When the user clicks on a link to perform Triage, Screening or Intake, they are automatically logged out as publiccitizen and logged back in under an anonymous account with a randomly generated user name. This username can be used for the duration of a session during which the user might perform Triage, Screening and/or Intake. There are good security reasons for associating each individual session with a different generated account. One of the core principles of UA is that users should not have access to the data of other users. If all Intake and Screenings were performed using a single user account, publiccitizen, for example, then there is potential for one user to end up seeing data that has been entered by another user.