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from the protected-anonymity? dept The US State Department keeps saying it wants to support a free and open internet, and to build systems that protect dissedents and reformers who are speaking out.
FBI Seized Anonymizer Server | Techdirt
Philippe Golle and Kurt Partridge of PARC have a cute paper ( pdf ) on the anonymity of geo-location data.
Your Morning Commute is Unique: On the Anonymity of Home/Work Location Pairs « 33 Bits of Entropy
De-anonymization is not X: The Need for Re-identification Science 33 Bits of Entropy
October 14, 2009 at 9:42 pm In an abstract sense, re-identifying a record in an anonymized collection using a piece of auxiliary information is nothing more than identifying which of N vectors best matches a given vector. As such, it is related to many well-studied problems from other areas of information science: the record linkage problem in statistics and census studies, the search problem in information retrieval, the classification problem in machine learning , and finally, biometric identification .
De-anonymizing Social Networks
Operators of online social networks are increasingly sharing potentially sensitive information about users and their relationships with advertisers, application developers, and data-mining researchers.on Security: Identifying People using Anonymous Social Networking Data
Computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Dr Vitaly Shmatikov, from the University of Texas at Austin, developed the algorithm which turned the anonymous data back into names and addresses. The data sets are usually stripped of personally identifiable information, such as names, before it is sold to marketing companies or researchers keen to plumb it for useful information. Before now, it was thought sufficient to remove this data to make sure that the true identities of subjects could not be reconstructed.
A 1993 New Yorker cartoon famously proclaimed, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
There is no such thing as anonymous online tracking | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Google+ and the loss of online anonymity | Rights & Liberties | Scoop.it
T-Mobile USA offers a "feature" to restrict access to certain kinds of content. This is called Web Guard.
Honestly, I feel like I write this post every year.
On the Issue of Pseudonymity | Neurotic Physiology
After a steady stream of angry blog posts and heated debate among its own users over the value of pseudonymity on the web, Google announced Monday that it was revising its “real name” policy, at least for display, on Google+. In a post on Google+, Google VP Bradley Horowitz promised greater transparency , particularly in suspension of user profiles. The new algorithm — human as well as computational — offers users a chance to correct their profiles before suspension.
Google+ Identity Crisis: What’s at Stake With Real Names and Privacy | Epicenter | Wired.com
Danish Police Aim to End Anonymity on the Internet | PCWorld
A proposal has been put forward by a working group at the Danish Ministry of Justice that will essentially eradicate anonymous use of the Internet, according to Computerworld Denmark .
JonDo (previously known as JAP ) is a VPN client written in Java that routes data across the JonDo network.