Anonymous Communications
on the Internet

Find out some of the information you are revealing about yourself every time you surf the Web. Visit the Center for Democracy and Technology's Snoop

Interest Groups and Web Resources

Human Rights For a detailed list of Human Rights interest groups and resources, visit the AAAS Science & Human Rights Program's Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet.

Not only does Mental Health Net list support resources but it also provides information about mental health and a search engine which brings up very interesting discussions regarding gender, on-line therapy, and much more when you run a search on "anonymity" or "pseudonymity."

Lucent Personalized Web Assistant (LPWA) is a new tool that provides convenience, privacy and enhanced security in personalized web browsing, as well as assistance in controling spam.

Encryption software enables you to protect the privacy of your email messages and data transmissions. For an explanation of encryption technologies and links to other Web resources on encryption, read Keep Your Data Secure from Prying Eyes: An Encryption Primer, by Dave Kosiur, in the March 1997 issue of Sun Microsystems' on-line magazine SunWorld.

Remailers enable you to send email messages with varying levels of anonymity or pseudonymity. A site which not only offers anonymous remailers but also provides helpful background information on the subject is the John Doe Home Page.
- Raph Levien's Remailer List

Addressing Anonymous Messages in Cyberspace, by Gia B. Lee, Harvard Law School
Agents, Artificial Intelligence Journal Abstracts, February 1995
Anonymity and Its Enmities, by A. Michael Froomkin
Anonymity for Fun and Deception: The Other Side of 'Community', by Richard Seltzer
Anonymity on the Internet Must be Protected, by Karina Rigby
CROWDS, a paper by Mike Reiter and Avi Rubin describing their work at AT&T on a system that will enable users to protect their privacy while executing web transactions.
Identity, Privacy, and Anonymity on the Internet by L. Detweiler
New Metrics for New Media: Toward the Development of Web Measurement Standards, Project 2000 White Paper, by Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak, 9/26/96
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for the Internet, a paper in favor of privacy protection, defining anonymity and discussing its legitimacy, abuse, prevelance of use, and more, by Ian Goldberg, David Wagner, and Eric Brewer.
Privacy Enhancing Technology: The Path to Anonymity, Joint International Report: The Netherlands and the province of Ontario, Canada.
The Psychology of Cyberspace, an online book by John Suler, Rider University.
Risk-Free Access Into the GII via Anonymous Re-Mailers, by Paul A. Strassmann, US Military Academy, West Point and Senior Advisor, SAIC; and William Marlow, Senior Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Home page of Sherry Turkle, author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet

Identity Crisis on the Internet, article in New Scientist, by Charles Arthur, 3/11/95

The AAAS Project on Anonymous Communications on the Internet was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Ethics and Values Studies Program (which is now a part of the Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology Program) of the Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Research and the Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate.
We would also like to thank the University of California at Irvine's Department of Information and Computer Sciences and the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations. They will be providing conference facilities and a hands-on demonstration of on-line anonymity and pseudonymity for conference participants.