Should we Really worry about Anonymous Surfing?
Should we be worried about the lack of privacy on the internet? How do you feel, knowing that your movements online are monitored and controlled by outside parties? These issues are important ones, and will help decide the future of the world wide web.
Take for instance the practice of geotargeting, you have probably come across this term online. This is basically the way what you see on a web site depends on the country you are surfing from. For instance, people trying to access the majority of media content on the BBC Iplayer will be blocked if there IP is not registered to the UK, similarly users outside the USA will have no joy connecting to Pandora or Hulu. Your IP address is customising what you see and hear when you are online, we are taking the globally accessible content on the internet and once again Read more...