A privacy paradigm that tradeoffs anonymity and trust

The protection of a principalpsilas private information over a network is problematic. It is even more so in non-hierarchical settings such as the Web 2.0, where each node both provides and requires data. Two paradigms exist to tackle these issues: one relies on the principalpsilas trust over the network, the other one insists on the principalpsilas anonymity. A new paradigm is advanced as a natural tradeoff between the two: it sees the principal act using her real identity but only circulate statistical information about the resource she requires. This signifies that the privacy requirement is shifted from the principalpsilas identity to her data. If evaluated with respect to the existing ones, the new paradigm appears simpler and more lightweight.