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Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone

Date: June 20, 2011

Author: Brian Stelter

QUOTE: The collective intelligence of the Internet’s two billion users, and the digital fingerprints that so many users leave on Web sites, combine to make it more and more likely that every embarrassing video, every intimate photo, and every indelicate e-mail is attributed to its source, whether that source wants it to be or not. This intelligence makes the public sphere more public than ever before and sometimes forces personal lives into public view.

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Key People:

• Andy Carvin
• Dave Morgan Esq.
• Prof. Susan P. Crawford Esq.
• Representative Anthony Weiner
• Tom MacMaster

Key Organizations:

• New York Times Company

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Information

• Computers & Information Technology
  • Photography/Visual Information

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Rights / Equal Protection
    • Privacy: Other
      • Anonymity/Surveillance/Identity Theft/Confidentiality

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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