Know Your Rights Maybe I am getting old or maybe my mind is just going, but has the world gone crazy? I just read an article that talks about how 2 US Senators have gotten together and introduced a bill called “Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights”. Now that sounds great. Privacy Bill of Rights It [...]

Facebook rolled out a “feature” very quietly last week. They posted a notice to their developer blog saying that they were now giving applications a way to get it’s user’s phone number and mailing address. Today they’ve announced that they are pausing that feature until they can more it’s users more aware of when they’ll [...]

I ran across an interesting site today called donttrack.us  This site tells a simple story about a fictional someone doing a Google search and what really happens.  It’s a site dedicated to promoting Duck Duck Go‘s search engine.  While I’ll admit the name of Duck Duck Go is actually worse than the made up word [...]

A proxy server will contact sites for you.   After entering the proxy information into your web browser,  you will have your IP Address hidden from any of the sites you visit.  Look for a full post about the benefits this brings.  Until then, here are a list of proxy servers to use.   Location Proxy [...]

Information is valuable. Personal information is priceless. Privacy is something that most of us take for granted. However, the Internet is fueled by the private, personal information that we unknowingly give away. Our browsers have some privacy controls built into them. Unfortunately, these controls are not nearly powerful enough to keep our browsing private. Fortunately, [...]

Every time that we perform a search on the Internet we gain a little piece of information. Unfortunately, we are also giving back to the Internet information about us. For anyone who believes that privacy should extend to online activities as well as “real life”, the following steps can help safe guard our privacy online. [...]

When most people refer to private browsing, they’re talking about not stopping people from viewing their Internet history. It is also referred as “porn mode” because that seems to be the number one reason people use private browsing. What does private browsing do for you? If you either share your computer with another person or [...]