Encrypt Everything

"By getting in the habit of using good encryption practices, you can ensure that your financial records, web surfing history, conversations with friends, and photos of your loved ones are private, and not endangered by your national government, a foreign government, major corporations like Facebook or Google, or even malicious hackers. With governments introducing mass Internet surveillance and corporations selling anything they can get about you online, for real privacy you must... ENCRYPT EVERYTHING!"

http://encrypteverything.ca

Collusion: Revealing Who is Tracking You when Browsing Online

"To appreciate the idea behind the Collusion browser add-on, you should first visit their short online demonstration [toolness.org]. The click-though interface shows how animated network graphs combined with text can tell compelling stories. Content-wise, the demonstration reveals how data collection companies manage to leave cookies in your browser configuration during standard web browsing, while it also visualizes how these seemingly separate companies are actually closely related to each other. "

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/07/collusion_visualize_who_is_tracking_you_when_browsing_online.html



http://collusion.toolness.org/

http://donttrack.us/

https://duckduckgo.com/

whspr!

"Need to receive a message by email, but can't (or don't want to) give out your email address? whspr! gives you a URL to share instead."

http://www.whspr.me/

The Eternal Value of Privacy

"The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"

Some clever answers: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me." "Because the government gets to define what's wrong, and they keep changing the definition." "Because you might do something wrong with my information." My problem with quips like these -- as right as they are -- is that they accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. "

http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html

"Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."

IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says

"IP addresses, strings of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012101340.html

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/23/2350211