Your right to anonymity

Amendments 4 and 5 of The United States Bill Of Rights protect the right to be free of unwarranted and unwanted government intrusion into one's personal and private affairs, papers, and possessions. Article 12 of The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family,

home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." Despite some charges to the contrary, anonymous Web surfing is not the sole province of criminals.

Anonymity also serves whistle blowers, free speech advocates, and people just looking for personal privacy online.

Privacy is not a crime and anonymity is not morally ambiguous or wrong, they are your right. Technical challenges to online privacy The Internet did not evolve with privacy in mind. In fact, the protocols that provide the fundamental underpinnings of the Internet are inherently non-anonymous

. It's just a simple matter of computers needing to know each other's addresses in order to exchange data.

For instance, any webserver can detect your Internet Protocol (IP) address. Other characteristics that a server can detect about you are your referrer (the site from which you are linking), the user-agent (the program you are using to browse the Web), and your operating system

.The Internet did not evolve with privacy in mind. In fact, the protocols that provide the fundamental underpinnings of the Internet are inherently non-anonymous.

It's just a simple matter of computers needing to know each other's addresses in order to exchange data.

The Internet did not evolve with privacy in mind. In fact, the protocols that provide the fundamental underpinnings of the Internet are inherently non-anonymous. It's just a simple matter of computers needing to know each other's addresses in order to exchange data.