Re: So the next logical question...
If you need that data to travel on a public system, the answer is no although you can indeed at least prune some of it. It will always have an origin, which you could possibly cloak, but without a target you'll have to develop a holding location which creates its own problems.
This traceability is going to get a lot worse with IPv6 coming in. At the moment you have still some protection from NAT traversals where one IP address can be one person or a whole ISP, but with IPv6 there is the potential to forego that layer of protection, which could result in every single machine having its own ID. At that point all these data thieves such as Google, Facebook and any intelligence agency won't even have to bother with cookies. Just implement a law that mandates a fixed IP address on each device (which, of course, immediately gets ignored or bypassed by government agencies and criminals) and your privacy is pretty much dead.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
