The move isn’t surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260326195046/https://www.404media.co/apple-gives-fbi-a-users-real-name-hidden-behind-hide-my-email-feature/



Pretty much any anonymization system like this is designed to protect your real identity and address from bad actors, not to hide you from the police. Protecting your anonymity against the government itself requires an entirely different approach, NONE of the publicly available email aliasing systems are designed for that.