Anonymity has gained notoriety in modern times as data about our actions and choices accumulates in the internet partly unbeknownst to us and partly by our own choice. Usually people wish some data about themselves were private while some other date may be public or is even wanted to be public for publicity reasons. There are different criteria which characterize the degree of anonymity of data. Given data can also be anonymized by different techniques in order to increase its degree of anonymity. In this paper we take a very simple "atomic" degree of anonymity as our starting place. We axiomatize these atoms and propose the investigation of first order logic based on these atoms. Considering the vast literature and the huge importance of anonymity our investigation may seem quite modest. However, it is about the logic of anonymity, not about how to secure, create or break anonymity.
翻译:在现代时代,关于我们的行动和选择的数据在互联网上积累了部分不为我们所知,部分是我们自己所选择的。通常人们希望关于他们自己的一些数据是私人的,而其他一些日期可能是公开的,甚至出于宣传原因希望是公开的。有不同的标准来说明数据匿名的程度。鉴于数据也可以用不同的技术来匿名,以提高其匿名程度。在本文中,我们以非常简单的“原子”匿名程度作为起点。我们对这些原子进行分解,并提议根据这些原子来调查第一顺序逻辑。考虑到庞大的文献和匿名的极大重要性,我们的调查可能显得微不足道。然而,这是关于匿名的逻辑,而不是关于如何保障、创造或打破匿名的逻辑。