Posts Tagged with ‘anonymity’

Google has been ordered to reveal real identity of a blogger using the company’s Blogger service in a lawsuit filed against the internet giant by a local Indian company. Unlike what you would expect given all the news that we hear from countries like Egypt about bloggers persecuted because of reporting on the news and events their governments were unhappy about (or in a manner that did not meet the expectations of those governments), this has nothing to do with [...]

Odds are if you are reading this blog, you are already using at least one, and probably many more, Web 2.0 apps. But I've seen several things over the past week that make me question how well people can stay "off the grid," maintaining even a partial online anonymity.
I've stated before that I'm a fairly private person. Until I started writing for blogs professionally, I kept my identity online behind a handle. When registering for sites that I test for [...]

You may recall back in mid-summer when Ask.com delivered a message about a new search feature it planned to launch by the end of the year. Well, here we are. December 11th. And Ask has apparently made good on its promise.
The promise was to bring about a search function that enables Ask Search users to browse the engine’s digital stacks in complete anonymity. No keyword cookies saved. No records of foot- and fingerprints filed away. Nope. Just you and [...]