Lottery winners should be allowed to remain anonymous. Especially in this day and age of social media.
The converse could be said that is a substantial public interest in assuring that the lottery is fair. Allow the winners to be anonymous, and in a couple years it’ll mysteriously happen that all of the winners turn out to be cousins of cousins.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/09/cuomo-vetoes-bill-allowing-lotto-winners-to-remain-anonymous/
Publicizing the name also “provides comfort that there was an actual winner’’ and ensures that the state is not “adding all the money to its own coffers,’’ he said.
Cuomo noted there’s long been a way to get around the anti-privacy rules: a winner can still create a limited liability corporation, or LLC, to collect the prize in its name.
The bill Cuomo vetoed had been popular, passing in the state Senate, 61-1, and in the Assembly, 140-3.