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 ==Problem==
-* Anonymity must not be equated with freedom from the consequences of one's actions. Vinton Cert had this to say:<ref>Vinton G. Cert, ''Warnings!''  '''CACM 67''' No. 12  (2024-12) p. 7</ref><blockquote>Anonymous speech, whil of value in some circumstances (such as whistle-blowing), is generally prone to harmful abuse because of the source may believe it is immune from the consequences os spreading disinformation. The problem is exacerbated by people who spread information without checking, either deliberately or out of naive belief that it is correct or relevant. ... I have become persuaded that identity, provenance, and accountability are our friends in the proliferated, online space. ... The veil of anonymity may need to be pierced under the right judicial conditions. I am not in favor of the so-called "backdoor" process as they can be abused and have been. ... We computer technologists have work to do to help our society cope with the potentially harmful effects of media scale.</blockquote>
+* Anonymity must not be equated with freedom from the consequences of one's actions. Vinton Cert had this to say:<ref>Vinton G. Cert, ''Warnings!''  '''CACM 67''' No. 12  (2024-12) p. 7</ref><blockquote>Anonymous speech, whil of value in some circumstances (such as whistle-blowing), is generally prone to harmful abuse because of the source may believe it is immune from the consequences os spreading [[Disinformation]]. The problem is exacerbated by people who spread information without checking, either deliberately or out of naive belief that it is correct or relevant. ... I have become persuaded that identity, provenance, and accountability are our friends in the proliferated, online space. ... The veil of anonymity may need to be pierced under the right judicial conditions. I am not in favor of the so-called "backdoor" process as they can be abused and have been. ... We computer technologists have work to do to help our society cope with the potentially harmful effects of media scale.</blockquote>
 * [[Artificial Intelligence]] has become powerful enough and broadly available in 2023 and so has been used to acquire user attributes from anonymous postings by any real person.<ref>Mack DeGeurin ''ChatGPT Can 'Infer' Personal Details From Anonymous Text'' Gizmodo (2023-10-27) https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-llm-infers-identifying-traits-in-anonymous-text-1850934318</ref> This is a reminder that [[Identity]] is not an [[Identifier]], but is a collection of personal [[Attribute]]s and [[Behavior]]s.<blockquote>A study by computer scientists at Switzerland's ETH Zurich found that large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic can infer a user's race, occupation, location, other personal information from anonymous text. The findings raise concerns that scammers, hackers, and law enforcement agencies, among others, could use LLMs to identify background information of users from the phrases and types of words they use. The LLM tests involved samples of text from a database of comments from more than 500 Reddit profiles. OpenAI's GPT4 had an [[Accuracy]] rate of 85% to 95% in identifying private information from the texts.</blockquote>
 * While some users may think that their attributes on distinct [[Web Site]]s cannot be correlated, research has shown that this goal will not be possible<ref>Gina Kolata, ''Can Data be Fully Anonymous? New Algorithms can still identify you'' New York Times (2019-07-24) p A8.</ref> That reality does not prevent users from trying to use [[Pseudonym]]s to remain [[Anonymous]], but it will never work against a determined adversary.

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 * Telephone, cellphone, and fax numbers
 * Email addresses
-* IP addresses (IP addresses can be used to identify physical addresses)
+* IP addresses (IP addresses can be used to identify [[Physical Location]])
 * Social Security Numbers
 * Medical record numbers

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 ==Problem==
-* Anonymity must not be equated with freedom from the consequences of one's actions. Vinton Cert had this to say:<ref>Vinton G. Cert, ''Warnings!''  '''CACM 67''' No. 12  (2024-12) p. 7</ref><blockquote>Anonymous speech, whil of value in some circumstances (such as whistle-blowing), is generally prone to harmful abuse because of the source may believe it is immune from the consequences os spreading disinformation. The problem is exacerbated by people who spread information without checking, either deliberately or out of naive belief that it is correct or relevant. ... I have become persuaded that identity, provenance, and accountability are our friends in the proliferated, online space.</blockquote>
+* Anonymity must not be equated with freedom from the consequences of one's actions. Vinton Cert had this to say:<ref>Vinton G. Cert, ''Warnings!''  '''CACM 67''' No. 12  (2024-12) p. 7</ref><blockquote>Anonymous speech, whil of value in some circumstances (such as whistle-blowing), is generally prone to harmful abuse because of the source may believe it is immune from the consequences os spreading disinformation. The problem is exacerbated by people who spread information without checking, either deliberately or out of naive belief that it is correct or relevant. ... I have become persuaded that identity, provenance, and accountability are our friends in the proliferated, online space. ... The veil of anonymity may need to be pierced under the right judicial conditions. I am not in favor of the so-called "backdoor" process as they can be abused and have been. ... We computer technologists have work to do to help our society cope with the potentially harmful effects of media scale.</blockquote>
 * [[Artificial Intelligence]] has become powerful enough and broadly available in 2023 and so has been used to acquire user attributes from anonymous postings by any real person.<ref>Mack DeGeurin ''ChatGPT Can 'Infer' Personal Details From Anonymous Text'' Gizmodo (2023-10-27) https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-llm-infers-identifying-traits-in-anonymous-text-1850934318</ref> This is a reminder that [[Identity]] is not an [[Identifier]], but is a collection of personal [[Attribute]]s and [[Behavior]]s.<blockquote>A study by computer scientists at Switzerland's ETH Zurich found that large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic can infer a user's race, occupation, location, other personal information from anonymous text. The findings raise concerns that scammers, hackers, and law enforcement agencies, among others, could use LLMs to identify background information of users from the phrases and types of words they use. The LLM tests involved samples of text from a database of comments from more than 500 Reddit profiles. OpenAI's GPT4 had an [[Accuracy]] rate of 85% to 95% in identifying private information from the texts.</blockquote>
 * While some users may think that their attributes on distinct [[Web Site]]s cannot be correlated, research has shown that this goal will not be possible<ref>Gina Kolata, ''Can Data be Fully Anonymous? New Algorithms can still identify you'' New York Times (2019-07-24) p A8.</ref> That reality does not prevent users from trying to use [[Pseudonym]]s to remain [[Anonymous]], but it will never work against a determined adversary.

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 ==Problem==
-* Anonymity must not be equated with freedom from the consequences of one's actions. Vinton Cert had this to say:<ref>Vinton G. Cert, ''Warnings!''  '''CACM 67''' No. 12  (2024-12) p. 7</ref><blockquote>Anonymous speech, whil of value in some circumstances (such as whistle-blowing), is generally prone to harmful abuse because of the source may believe it is immune from the consequences os spreading disinformation. The problme is exacerbated by epople who spread information without checking, either deliberately or out of naive belief that it is correct or relavant.</blockquote>
+* Anonymity must not be equated with freedom from the consequences of one's actions. Vinton Cert had this to say:<ref>Vinton G. Cert, ''Warnings!''  '''CACM 67''' No. 12  (2024-12) p. 7</ref><blockquote>Anonymous speech, whil of value in some circumstances (such as whistle-blowing), is generally prone to harmful abuse because of the source may believe it is immune from the consequences os spreading disinformation. The problem is exacerbated by people who spread information without checking, either deliberately or out of naive belief that it is correct or relevant. ... I have become persuaded that identity, provenance, and accountability are our friends in the proliferated, online space.</blockquote>
 * [[Artificial Intelligence]] has become powerful enough and broadly available in 2023 and so has been used to acquire user attributes from anonymous postings by any real person.<ref>Mack DeGeurin ''ChatGPT Can 'Infer' Personal Details From Anonymous Text'' Gizmodo (2023-10-27) https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-llm-infers-identifying-traits-in-anonymous-text-1850934318</ref> This is a reminder that [[Identity]] is not an [[Identifier]], but is a collection of personal [[Attribute]]s and [[Behavior]]s.<blockquote>A study by computer scientists at Switzerland's ETH Zurich found that large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic can infer a user's race, occupation, location, other personal information from anonymous text. The findings raise concerns that scammers, hackers, and law enforcement agencies, among others, could use LLMs to identify background information of users from the phrases and types of words they use. The LLM tests involved samples of text from a database of comments from more than 500 Reddit profiles. OpenAI's GPT4 had an [[Accuracy]] rate of 85% to 95% in identifying private information from the texts.</blockquote>
 * While some users may think that their attributes on distinct [[Web Site]]s cannot be correlated, research has shown that this goal will not be possible<ref>Gina Kolata, ''Can Data be Fully Anonymous? New Algorithms can still identify you'' New York Times (2019-07-24) p A8.</ref> That reality does not prevent users from trying to use [[Pseudonym]]s to remain [[Anonymous]], but it will never work against a determined adversary.

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 ==Problem==
 * [[Artificial Intelligence]] has become powerful enough and broadly available in 2023 and so has been used to acquire user attributes from anonymous postings by any real person.<ref>Mack DeGeurin ''ChatGPT Can 'Infer' Personal Details From Anonymous Text'' Gizmodo (2023-10-27) https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-llm-infers-identifying-traits-in-anonymous-text-1850934318</ref> This is a reminder that [[Identity]] is not an [[Identifier]], but is a collection of personal [[Attribute]]s and [[Behavior]]s.<blockquote>A study by computer scientists at Switzerland's ETH Zurich found that large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic can infer a user's race, occupation, location, other personal information from anonymous text. The findings raise concerns that scammers, hackers, and law enforcement agencies, among others, could use LLMs to identify background information of users from the phrases and types of words they use. The LLM tests involved samples of text from a database of comments from more than 500 Reddit profiles. OpenAI's GPT4 had an [[Accuracy]] rate of 85% to 95% in identifying private information from the texts.</blockquote>
 * While some users may think that their attributes on distinct [[Web Site]]s cannot be correlated, research has shown that this goal will not be possible<ref>Gina Kolata, ''Can Data be Fully Anonymous? New Algorithms can still identify you'' New York Times (2019-07-24) p A8.</ref> That reality does not prevent users from trying to use [[Pseudonym]]s to remain [[Anonymous]], but it will never work against a determined adversary.

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 * Account numbers (e.g., bank account numbers)
 * Vehicle identifiers and serial numbers, including license plates
-* [[Web site]] URLs If a URL is logged within a specific application, the URL can be used to uniquely identify an individual
+* [[Web Site]] URLs If a URL is logged within a specific application, the URL can be used to uniquely identify an individual
 * Full face photos and comparable images
 * [[Biometric Identifier]]s (including fingerprints, voice prints, and retinal images)