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10. Avoid giving information to any company that says they
might sell your information to other parties. You'll have to look closely at the site's privacy
policy or statement to find this information.
9. Avoid accessing personal or private information such as e-mail
on a public computer (i.e. work, school, library,
etc.) because there is no guarantee that this
information is not tracked, and you're probably not on
a
secure connection.
8. Don't give away information that companies don't have a right to know, such as your social security number.
7. Don't give out any personal information to people you meet in chat rooms, message
boards or newsgroups, unless you know for sure who they are and
have met them in person. To protect your e-mail
address against cyberstalkers and spam
use a service such as Spamex.
6. If you have to send private or secret information through e-mail, make sure you encrypt it
first with a product such as PGP.
You can also use Winzip for encryption, click here to
learn how/why.
If you don't need to receive a reply, then
click the following link to use a free Remailer.
5. Anonymizer
is the way to go for privacy if you can afford it,
$5/month. Anonymizer
is a service that allows surfers to connect to their
proxy server and surf the web anonymously.
Cookies, spyware, etc. are intercepted at the server
level and never reach your computer. This is by
far the best privacy protection available.
4. Cover your tracks with the
following programs:
3. Remove yourself from the Internet. There are many
sites that provide personal information about us on the
net. I have compiled a list of the major ones, and
provided links below to their "remove me from your
listings" pages.
Google
411
Switchboard
US
Search
InfoSpace
Super
Pages
Lycos
Ultimate
White Pages
Internet
Address Finder
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