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How do You Protect Your Online Privacy?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-that-they-are-watching-are-you-paranoid-yet dept.

P asks: "In the light of the recent discussions about on-line privacy: What can one do to protect his/her on-line privacy, while still having a enjoyable web experience? For example, are you using PGP for all your emails and Zfone for all your VOIP traffic? Or are there better ways of protecting oneself? Share your tips and tricks."

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  1. Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tor, & Privacy by reporter · · Score: 1, Troll
    To protect your privacy on the Internet, you have two choices: general anonymizer like Tor or an anonymous proxy server.

    I prefer Tor because it is affiliated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). A page on the EFF website states, "A branch of the U.S. Navy uses Tor for open source intelligence gathering, and one of its teams used Tor while deployed in the Middle East recently . Law enforcement uses Tor for visiting or surveilling web sites without leaving government IP addresses in their web logs, and for security during sting operations."

    The issue is trust. I trust the EFF.

    On the other hand, some anonymous proxy servers are located in Mexico. Do I trust that Mexican society is a staunch advocate of privacy rights and other civil rights?