Guarantees for online anonymity?

Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 08:50 in Psychology & Sociology

Anonymity on the Internet is possible only up to a certain degree. Therefore, it is possible that others may see who is visiting an online advice site on sexual abuse, or who frequently looks up information about a certain disease, for example. Seeing that this kind of private information can be linked to their identity, users will often resort to special online anonymization services.

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