Is online anonymity a bad thing? Calls for the death of online anonymity get invoked by everyone from the anti-cyber-bullying crowd to social networking proponents. Tie comments to an actual person, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. There are times when staying anonymous online is necessary to ...

Protecting anonymity is at the core of our mission and our pledge to our users. Recently, there has been some confusion around how we are maintaining anonymity on our platform with the addition of ...

Online anonymity, the practice of concealing one's true identity while engaging on the internet, is a complicated phenomenon. It has positive and negative implications, which can vary greatly ...

Best Web Hosting Services: Top 10 Tested by our Experts Best Anonymous Hosting Providers in 2026 The word ‘anonymous’ is taken lightly these days. Nearly nothing you do online is anonymous, let alone ...

University of Queensland researchers have found there are two key reasons people choose to be anonymous online—self-expression or toxic behavior. A team led by Ph.D. candidate Lewis Nitschinsk from UQ ...

If you’re searching for the best anonymous Instagram story viewer, chances are you want to check a story without leaving a trace, no profile view, no name in the viewer list, no awkward questions ...

The Greek government is pressing ahead with a plan to ban anonymity on social media, aiming to curb rising toxicity, ...

In this series, NPR takes readers behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Meghan Ashford-Grooms, an editor on the standards team, describes how NPR thinks about unnamed sources.