Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site The Illusion of Web Privacy (01 Apr 2004) People complain about anonymity online. Increasingly, it gets in the way of efforts to clean up spam and fraud. Yet there are all sorts of situations where we need Internet communications to be anonymous-whistle-blowing, the confidentiality of medical and legal records, human rights activism, and political dissent. Article URL: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/apr04/0404webs.html Read 51 more articles from IEEE Spectrum sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The Whistle-blower's Dilemma This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy