You know that your privacy is important and is worth protecting. We've even shown you how to do it. Still, who exactly are we protecting our privacy from? Are you more concerned about disreputable companies looking to steal and sell your data, hackers and identity thieves, or tap-happy government?
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Safe Shepherd is a privacy protection service that already
scrubs your personal data from creepy people search engines, but the service also now keeps tabs on your social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram to make sure you're not oversharing or letting sensitive information slip.
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Privacy is dead, right? Facebook knows everything about you, and the world is still turning. Whether you don't mind companies or the government knowing all about your private life or still feel completely uneasy at the idea, we often gloss over exactly
why your personal data is worth protecting. We teamed up with the
Electronic Frontier Foundation to get to the heart of the issue, and dispel some common myths around the ways your data is used.
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Privacy is dead, right? Facebook knows everything about you, and the world is still turning. Whether you don't mind companies or the government knowing all about your private life or still feel completely uneasy at the idea, we often gloss over exactly
why your personal data is worth protecting. We teamed up with the
Electronic Frontier Foundation to get to the heart of the issue, and dispel some common myths around the ways your data is used.
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We've mentioned
Collusion for Firefox in the past, but the folks at Disconnect have rebuilt the plugin for Chrome users as well, giving them the same live view of how the sites you visit on the web are tracking and transmitting data about you as you browse. As you browse, you can pull up the Collusion map to see which sites have dropped tracking cookies on your system and who else those sites send data to, all in real-time.
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