Dicas para proteger a sua privacidade on-line

Face à divulgação das pesquisas on-line dos clientes AOL, The Electronic Frontier Foundation sugere seis dicas para evitar que informação pessoal seja obtida e divulgada por empresas como o Google, o Yahoo ou o seu serviço de acesso à Internet.

O artigo
Six Tips to Protect Your Online Search Privacy

How to Defend Yourself from Privacy Invasions Like AOL's Search Data Disaster

San Francisco - In the wake of AOL's publicly revealing customers' Internet search histories, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published "Six Tips to Protect Your Online Search Privacy."AOL's recent disclosure of its users' search logs exposed the private lives of more than a half-million customers.
But all the major search engines -- not just AOL -- record search queries and maintain massive databases that reach into the most intimate details of users' lives. When revealed to others, these details can be embarrassing and even cause great harm.

As dicas
* Don't put personally identifying information like your name, address, credit card number, or Social Security number in your searches.
* Don't use a search engine operated by your Internet service provider (ISP).
* Don't log in to your search engine or its related services. So, if you have accounts with services like GMail or Yahoo! Mail, don't use Google or Yahoo!'s search engines, respectively. Or, use one browser for your searches and a different browser for your other activities.
* Block "cookies" from your search engine.
* Vary your IP address.
* Use web proxies and anonymizing software that mask your IP address and other information that can be used to track you.