Anonymity

PRISM is a massive surveillance program established by the United States National Security Agency in 2007 with the goal of obtaining and analyzing information on criminal activity. In 2013, the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the extent of the National Security Agency’s operations were much larger than previously realized (BBC News). It is now known that the National Security Agency has obtained information from the servers of major internet companies (e.g. Google, Facebook, Microsoft…

Since the crowd is full of cowardliness made up of cowardly individuals, this leads to them also hide behind anonymity. Hiding behind anonymity is the concept of how individuals can be anonymous. But also not to have responsibility for what they do because no one knows their identity. Kierkegaard insists this through the example that there is no responsibility the individuals…

discussion will be publically done due to possible repercussion. Anonymity, in such cases, allows the jurors to work freely in the public discussion. It also allows them to bring the verdicts, which might be unpopular to the public. Moreover, the anonymity and secrecy also provide the juries a freedom to disregard the letters of the law. The secrecy of the jury allowed them to be entirely discrete when making the…

over the years. Anonymity can affect a story's credibility, but sometimes it is only through unnamed sources that valuable information can be obtained. A good example of this scenario can be found in the film, ‘All The President’s Men’, about the Watergate Scandal. I personally think that without anonymous sources, there would have been no Watergate story. This is because most of the sources that Woodward and Bernstein had were high-ranking officials. Without guaranteed anonymity, the officials…

Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Decatur VA Clinic, consent forms will be provided to all involved parties (see Appendix A) participating in qualitative case study. All participants involved in the focus group identities will be concealed for anonymity and will be recognized by a code created by the researcher. In addition, participants are voluntary and have the right at any time to withdraw from the…

Living Dictionary defines anonymity as the state of being anonymous or of having no outstanding features. Analogously, the word anonymity also exemplifies the condition of women prior to the advancement of feminism, as previous to this, women were marginalized and rarely recognized as capable of achievements beyond childbirth and housework. As Virginia Woolf explained, anonymous “was often a woman.” Although, some anonymity may be relaxing, the thought of total anonymity is undesirable by any…

However, since it is public, the same situation applies to everyone else, such as drug dealers, and human traffickers (Perlroth, 2016). The creation of this software changes our culture greatly, it increased the anonymity of people making safer for everyone to speak out or reveal the truth about a cover up, corruption, or manipulation of the government in some ways. This keeps the government accountable for their act (Perlroth,…

attendees may come because of genuine interest rather than advertising or promotion. Disadvantages of this anonymity could be the inability to forge a true connection with others, and because of comorbidity issues perhaps not being granted access to services they may need and not be aware of (such as mental health services). There is also the danger of an attendee having suicidal thoughts and the anonymity prevents follow-up or further intervention as attendance is often…

In his essay “In Defense of Drones: a historical argument,” David Bell defends the use of drones as a weapon from critics that doubt the moral and political implications of war “waged by one side without risk to the life and limb of its combatants.” Bell’s creates his arguments using comparisons, quotes, and facts. Bell’s first argument addresses the concern of drones “radically change[ing] the political dynamics of warfare” by comparing the purpose of drones to that of past weaponry. He states…

but also to study internet anonymity and its advantages. Just like the rhetorical analysis, I had never written an ethnography before now. Fortunately, I was able to use some genre conventions to guide, most obviously shown in the design of the paper, using the IMRD (introduction, methodology, results, and discussion) to guide my writing. The research itself was based on a question developed during my preliminary observations, asking how different genders employ anonymity. I then answered the…