anonymity

LinuxCareer: For many years people have wanted to protect their right to privacy.

As detailed in yesterday’s article, if a VPN provider carries logs of their users’ activities the chances of them not being able to live up to their claim of offering an anonymous service begins to decrease rapidly.

There are dozens of VPN providers, many of which carry marketing on their web pages which suggests that the anonymity of their subscribers is a top priority.

But is it really? Do their privacy policies stand up to scrutiny? We decided to find out.

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Some news sites such as The Huffington Post use badges and other kinds of reward systems to encourage user engagement and positive behavior in their online communities.

Could doing this help Google overcome the downsides of anonymity without banning users who don't use their real name?

Facebook's marketing director Randi Zuckerberg, sister to Mark, has joined the ranks of tech giants calling for an end to online anonymity and pseudonyms.

Calling itself the world's "first virtual currency," Bitcoin offers the anonymity of cash and the ease of a credit card --and it does so without any centralized authority.

So who keeps transactions honest, and where do new Bitcoins come from?

DARPA has created a technology that can index and analyze video in real-time, marking the end of anonymity in public places.

As revealed earlier this week, rightsholders from the music and movie industries have identified 100 “copyright infringing” websites which in their ideal world would be blocked at ISP level.

Is it now a sign of madness to even go online without some kind of protection?

In what seems like a very dangerous ruling, antithetical to basic anonymity rights, a magistrate judge has ruled that Sony can unmask anyone who visited GeoHot's website where he had posted the jailbreak data or who viewed the YouTube video that demonstrated the jailbreak for the PS3 that allowed PS3 owners to bring back a feature that Sony had killed off.