Anonymity over the internet (WIP)

The overall objective of the project is to find the reason why social networking sites are eagerly creating free widgets that can be embedded to any website. Apparently these widgets are free, but it has already been proven that these small applications' purpose is to collect data of the visitors and help social networking sites to create a better profile of their users. This paper contains the base of a current research on what information is available of the website visitors and how social sites can use this data.