“Forget About Internet Anonymity is a Myth …”

Every click, every quest, every ‘Register’ or ‘I agree’ you do on the Internet has a commercial value astronomical.

Imagine that as you walk, without notice and without meaning, it leaves tracks. What aboutsomeone who is picking up, collecting and correlating to know more about you, your tastes, your interests.

This is the information of Internet users that certain websites allow you to filter to other companies.

‘There is a longstanding myth according to which the trace (users) on the Internet by third parties (advertisers, companies offering web analysis, social networks) is anonymous. There is overwhelming evidence showing that this is not the case, “he told BBC Jonathan Mayer, a researcher at the Computer Security Laboratory at Stanford University.

Mayer conducted a study in which, after analyzing 185 websites found that in 113, the user name (user name) or user identification (user ID) fled to a third party. That is, 61% of the sample.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the answer to the question of whether or not we can beanonymous on the Internet is overwhelming:

‘No, to date, there is still enough to get named. There are many techniques to ensure privacy, but not being implemented, “he told BBC Mundo, Antonio Martinez, a professor of Telematics Engineering, University of Murcia.