Watching faceless online passerby troll bloggers or mock fellow scribblers can be a drag, but what if legislators’ answer to online ne’er-do-wells was to ban anonymous comments from websites entirely?

The IARPA ARTS program aims to develop novel algorithms that will modify spontaneous speech in real-time to protect an individual’s privacy. Countless electronics in modern life, like smart phones, ...

Every day innumerable people "speak" on the internet, through email, social media, blogs, and other electronic writings, without disclosing their identities (or by using fictitious ones). But the ...

A central California county agreed to settle a lawsuit over a satirical social media account that found itself at the center of a First Amendment debate over the rights to and limits of anonymous ...