It’s equally one of the internet’s greatest assets and most dangerous enablers: anonymity. From your secret Reddit account where you enthuse with others over your nichest of interests, to your “finsta”, many of us take anonymity on the internet as a given.
But your secret social media account may not be as private as you think, according to a new study. Scientists in Switzerland found artificial intelligence (AI) tools are capable of unmasking anonymous accounts at scale, revealing the true identity behind them by matching them up to their public counterparts.
