Online anonymity hasn’t made the Internet a better place. Making people pay for anonymity on social platforms could shift the balance of incentives in a better direction. I started using the Internet ...

Though the desire to protect children means well, lawmakers' approach to age verification could create unprecedented data ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. China's social media platforms have asked anonymous influencer accounts with more than 500,000 followers to display their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. There are times when staying anonymous online is necessary to ...

Proton CEO warns EU age checks could end online anonymity CEO issues warning: Proton's Andy Yen says EU-wide age verification could 'kill' online anonymity by requiring IDs for all internet users.

“On the Internet,” says the famous New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you’re a dog.” In hindsight, the artist should have ...

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The value of anonymity in online medical crowdsourcing communities has been debated in the past. Is there truly a need to be anonymous when talking with peers in a professional only community? We live ...

Over the past few years a growing number of social networks and online communities -- the likes of Facebook and YouTube among them -- have introduced, or in some cases have tried to introduce, a real ...

A few days ago, Blogtown got into it over the question of removing anonymity from blog comments. Then yesterday, Slate ran an article called “Anonymous Comment: Why We Need to Get Rid of Them Once and ...

As Chinese social media platforms move toward requiring users to disclose more information about their real identities, will we lose what made us want to be online in the first place? If you think ...

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