As far as interviews go, it was a bit of a train wreck. Last week, Michael Heyward was on stage at the annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City, shifting uncomfortably in his seat, ...

You probably know about the digital anonymity service Tor, but for whatever reason you may not actually use it. Maybe between the nodes, traffic rerouting, and special onion URLs it seems too ...

We've all seen how the comments section of online news stories can sometimes bring out the worst in people — with profane, hateful language, personal attacks, and a general lack of civility. A ...

When Facebook burst onto the scene in 2004, the Internet's culture of anonymity and pseudonymity, when strangers talked mainly behind screen names, changed drastically. That is why recent reports that ...

Should websites quash them or encourage them? June 2, 2011 — -- The debate over anonymity on the Internet is heating up again. Courts increasingly encounter the question of when to order the ...

First Amendment anonymity safeguards have been vital over the past half-century, but they have limits. The constitutional protections prevent certain uses of government power to unmask people. Cases ...

Anonymity is one of the great gifts of the Internet, because it allows people to explore new interests and express opinions without anyone knowing who they are. It's protective, it's empowering, and ...

Many 12-step programs make a rule of preserving participants' anonymity, but now some are challenging that policy. Opponents say 12-step programs have lost enough of their stigma for participants to ...

When Rosemary Port, a New York blogger, used her anonymous posts to call a New York fashion model a "skank" and a "ho," she had no idea that her name would soon be plastered across the pages of the ...

There are many ways to communicate anonymously on the Internet, including anonymous remailers for e-mail, anonymous posting, and anonymous creation of Web pages. Anonymity allows a person to express ...