Under general circumstances, I would be inclined to disagree that I would have any reason to know personal information about my Website’s visitors. After reading this article below however, I am at least willing to hear out the opposing side of things.

HTTP is a stateless internet protocol used in requesting for pages on your site. HTTP is not designed to identify your visitors or keep a detailed record of their actions on your website.

The anonymity of this internet protocol works to the advantage of privacy advocates. However, as the owner of a website, you have to compensate for the lack of information about your visitors by using your web server and website to identify and track your web visitors.

There are good reasons why you need to identify your visitors and I have listed some of them below. Source: Website Analysis Blog

Tags: privacy, web visitors, identity, internet protocol