Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

10 Free Ways to Track All Your Passwords

With the proliferation of web services — there’s a new one out each day, it seems — it feels like we’re always creating new accounts, each with a different username and password.

The easy options — using the same password each time or writing them down on paper or in a spreadsheet — aren’t exactly the most secure. In fact, security experts strongly warn against these options as they… » Continue

June 1 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: password, privacy, software, track | 88 comments»

Top 10 Privacy Infringing Companies

The Business Intelligence Lowdown sheds light onto some very questionable privacy management practices by some of the biggest online companies including: America Online, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, and Google.
How much would you sell your private data to a company for? Would you take $100 to let someone see every site you have visited over the past year, how about $1,000? Today, many major companies spend millions collecting a variety data on… » Continue

February 6 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: consumer, information, Management, privacy | 3 comments»

13 Easy Ways to Safeguard Your Privacy in 2007

Many of us worry about privacy or personal data - if you do, you should spend a bit efforts to protect them. A blog called ICWT: In Corruption We Trust introduces 13 ways to protect your privacy. They are painless and easy to perform and could effectively protect your privacy. Take several and implement them:

Don’t Use Your Middle Initial.
Get a Non-Published Telephone Number.
Get a P.O. Box and Use It.
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January 2 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: privacy, protection | 2 comments»

Open Source USB Privacy Suite

Traveling Forever has a very informative and useful article on how to set up a USB stick for encryption and anonymous surfing, if you’re concerned about your internet privacy, especially when it comes to your government’s use of your data.

You see, there are fundamental problems with the way the internet was designed in regards to security and privacy. Every email message or web address sent unencrypted (probably every message… » Continue

May 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: data, eff, freedom, privacy, protection, security, software, usb | 4 comments»