On the Internet, Everybody Knows You're You

Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone. (The New York Times, 6/20/2011)

Excerpt:   The collective intelligence of the Internet’s two billion users, and the digital fingerprints that so many users leave on Web sites, combine to make it more and more likely that every embarrassing video, every intimate photo, and every indelicate e-mail is attributed to its source, whether that source wants it to be or not. This intelligence makes the public sphere more public than ever before and sometimes forces personal lives into public view.