Privacy and anonymity
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
– Eric Hughes, "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto", 1993
(https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html)
Ask any individual how important privacy is and you will get the same answer every time: privacy is very important but in a digital age, where we don't have control over our personal information, how do we take it back? In April 2018, this importance was further highlighted in a very public Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
An app was created in 2014 called This Is Your Digital Life and about 270,000 people were paid to participate. The glitch was that it not only collected personal...
