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Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society." However, anonymous online speech is not without limits.
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There are also several governmental organizations that protect an individual's privacy and anonymity on the Internet, to a point. In an article presented by the FTC, in October 2011, a number of pointers were brought to attention that help an individual Internet user avoid possible identity theft and other cyber-attacks.
Reference is made to codes of conduct as a tool to set out possible anonymisation mechanisms as well as retention in a form in which identification of the data subject is “no longer possible”. [5] There are five types of data anonymization operations: generalization, suppression, anatomization, permutation, and perturbation. [6]
IP addresses can vary in level of anonymity. IP allocation on some ISPs changes very quickly, whereas others can remain stable for months or years. Some countries have a very limited roster of IP addresses. Many businesses have dedicated IP addresses that, when checked, will reveal the corporate name and location.
Anonymity, the state of an individual's identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown Anonymous work, a work of art or literature that has an unnamed or unknown creator or author; Anonymity (social choice), a property of a voting rule, saying that it does not discriminate apriori between voters
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. — Publilius Syrus Information dissemination is an attack on privacy when information which was shared in confidence is shared or threatened to be shared in a way that harms the subject of the information.