Preparing applications for anonymity
Once the devices are suitably set up to provide privacy and anonymity, we need to prepare applications as applications also collect information about users and create privacy challenges. The method for preparing applications for anonymity depends on the type of application. Some applications provide full functionality of the application without the user having to provide their true identity or even any identity. This mechanism is known as anonymity and pseudonymity. Both anonymity and pseudonymity are important concepts in privacy. Applications that support anonymity do not require any identity information or personally identifiable information to provide functionality. In general, these applications do not require users to register before using the app. Apps that support pseudonymity provide functionality once users produce any username, term, or descriptor that’s different from the actual name of the user. In other words, users can use...