Unlike government spying, which is highly personalized, website tracking is anonymous on the back end.
It's true that people are much less anonymous on the Web than they may think, and there's rarely "privacy" with social media.
But the Ultimate Fighting Championship president may have second thoughts about mixing it up with members of the hacker collective Anonymous on Thursday night on Twitter, where he was on the receiving end of a brutal punch.
The Pirate Bay, unexpectedly, spoke out Wednesday afternoon against the Anonymous attacks on its behalf.
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Anonymous Demands on the Federal Reserve originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.
This followed a series of reports by anonymous researchers on websites like MuddyWatersResearch.com.
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Eerily similar allegations began popping up in anonymous posts on Yahoo, but Yahoo refused Halpern's demand to identify the attackers.
Today we have quick fire and semi or completely anonymous attacks on people, brands, businesses and just about everything else.
They would notice links from Anonymous supporters on Twitter, Facebook or blogs.
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The young woman's identity was unknown until Caryville police received an anonymous tip on Monday, having released a picture and requested information from the public.
Alcoholics Anonymous, on the other hand, is a self organizing, bottom up, all volunteer organization that is almost completely free of the inefficient friction of bosses and bureaucracy.
Pinned to the wall are 160 small color prints of anonymous people on a beach and 107 typed notecards asking variations on the same question: Has anyone seen their friend Al.
"For all the big words people are still able to have anonymous accounts on Pastebin so they are effectively untraceable, " said Prof Alan Woodward, a visiting professor at the University of Surrey's computing department.
An anonymous user on an Irish message board reported Wednesday his Samsung Galaxy S III caught fire, creating a public relations headache for Samsung as it prepares to launch its flagship smartphone in the United States.
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By an Anonymous User on Quora.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had said in a press conference in October that the site would launch its new anonymous dropbox on November 28th, a year after its announcement of its Cablegate leak of 251, 000 State Department documents.
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Early in the Tour, Wiggins raged about anonymous skeptics on Twitter, chiding them for "bone-idleness, " but later in the race he wrote a piece in The Guardian in which he described his cycling ascension and his rejection of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Rankings based on anonymous online votes, such as those on TripAdvisor, also raise doubts.
On Sunday, another, seemingly separate call for WikiLeaks vengeance from a member of Anonymous began circulating on social media sites including Twitter and Reddit.
The Pentagon study on sexual harassment and assaults, released on Tuesday, was based on anonymous surveys.
So journalists seek those details out and almost always have to rely on anonymous sources.
He added that, starting this year, branch managers will be compensated in part on anonymous customer satisfaction ratings of the brokers.
Do website operators need to do more to protect our privacy when it comes to anonymous comments posted on their sites?
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About 10, 700 of those cases -- 56% -- involved male victims in 2010, based on anonymous reporting collected by the military.
Thus far, the reporting has been based entirely on anonymous sources who have provided no evidence to support claims of Iranian cyber attacks.
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