Danish Law Enforcement Would Like To Outlaw Anonymous Use Of The Internet

Danish Law Enforcement Would Like To Outlaw Anonymous Use Of The Internet: "The Danish Ministry of Justice has put forth a proposal that would effectively make it much more difficult for anyone to use the internet anonymously. Specifically, if adopted, the plan would require that anyone offering open internet access to users would first have to confirm each user's identity, and then (of course!) record all sorts of info such as IP addresses, browser histories and records of who the user interacted with. That data then gets sent to the government... 'to combat terrorism.' Of course, what this means is that there's almost no way to be anonymous online. While it may be true that anonymity can (and at times, is) abused, it's going really far to suggest that there shouldn't be any anonymity. And giving the government that much info just screams out for it to be abused. We're definitely seeing more proposals like this... and, amusingly, any time we mention them, it seems that the 'anonymous' commenters here are the ones who insist that such policies make sense...

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