EFF.org just published a very good guide on private searching, entitiled, “Six Tips to Protect Your Online Search Privacy.” For particularly techie people, most of the suggestions are common sense, but it is worth a once-through nonetheless.
For those of you new to EFF, or The Electonic Frontier Federation, they are a non-profit group of lawyers, policy analysts, activists and technologists who uphold the freedoms that come under attach in our tech society. They defend issues including free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights. In every battle affecting digital rights, the EFF has supported the public interest.
Tips for privacy:
- Don’t put personally identifying information in your search terms
- Don’t use your ISP’s search engine
- Don’t log into your search engine or related tools
- Block cookies from your search engine
- Vary your IP address
- Use web proxies and anonymizing software like Tor (a plugin for Mozilla Firefox and a anonymous server)
To check out the full article, please visit eff.org/privacy/.
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