anonymity

Facebook is storing your search terms and matching your account to your offline purchases. Here's how to opt out now, before it's too late.

Eight men have been arrested on charges they ran a network called the Farmer's Market that provided an order-and-fulfillment service for the international sale of LSD, ketamine and other serious drugs, while hiding everyone's identities using the free, friendly TOR proxy network.

If you think using a false identity will allow you to slander or harass people online, think again. Anonymity will not save you.

Despite the hamfisted way Google has been handling the issue of real names on Google+, you have to at least give them props for realizing that securing members' identities is key to keeping its network free from scammers. That's something eBay, Craigslist, and MySpace (among others) realized too late.

You know who you are, and I know who I am. But how do I know you’re really who you say you are (and vice versa) when we’re connecting on Facebook, or doing a transaction on eBay, or chatting on a dating profile, or even applying for a job online?