Privacy Resources

Here are some links for further information:

• The Privacy Foundation exists to publicize threats to personal privacy.
• Steve Gibson (who wrote the SpinRite utility) offers Shields UP, which tests your vulnerability from the web. He also offers OptOut, a free utility to let you know when one of your programs is surreptitiously spying on you.
• The Privacy Forum provides some websites and news reports of interest.
• I find the Computer Risks Digest extremely interesting. It contains discussions on all types of risks in computer systems, including privacy.

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