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With akapost, you can send and receive emails from any of your existing email accounts but still keep your actual email addresses private.

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CensorSweeper allows users to test their net connection for censored sites, just using an unmodified web browser.

CleanUp! is a powerful and easy-to-use application that removes temporary files created while surfing the web, empties the Recycle Bin, deletes files from your temporary folders and more.

CleanUp! frees disk space and reduces the "clutter" on your computer helping it to run more efficiently. It also can be used as a way to protect your privacy on the Internet. You can even instruct CleanUp! to securely delete files making it impossible to retrieve their contents using lower-level disk tools - just another way of protecting your privacy.

Collusion is a Firefox addon that provides an interactive, real-time visualization of the entities that track your behavior as you surf the web.

Create your own personal contact form. People click on it, they can send you a message, and you never reveal your email address.

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Cryptocat aims to provide an open source, browser-based instant messaging service which uses technologies such as client-side cryptography in order to provide stronger privacy than today's leading browser-based IM services. Cryptocat aims to leverage both the ease of use and accessibility afforded by web applications and the security provided by client-side public key cryptosystems.

Security and privacy protection software.

DNT+ blocks third party tracking of your browsing behavior, so you can browse freely and safely.

East-Tec Eraser 2007 protects your privacy, identity and confidential information and removes all evidence of your computer and online activity.privacy security

Facebook Privacy List is a filter subscription for Adblock Plus. It helps protect your privacy by blocking Facebook plugins and scripts (such as the "Like" button) when you visit non-Facebook websites.

This toolbox is for Facebook users who:

• Want a better understanding of what information Facebook makes public about them
• May wish to continue using Facebook, but on their own terms and with greater control over their information
• Need tools that go beyond the limitations of Facebook's privacy settings

There are several tools listed here, and some of them have overlapping capabilities. Here is the combination of tools that is working out well for me:

What I use:

• Multifox
• Facebook Privacy Scanner at ReclaimPrivacy.org
• Facebook API Browser
• Search Your Facebook Information on Google

Background Information

• New Facebook privacy changes are a LOT worse than I thought
• Are you removing Facebook fan pages from your profile to protect your privacy? Let page owners know!

If you'd like to recommend more tools for this toolbox, email me at kathryn@happysnowmantech.com.

P.S. If you like the icon for this toolbox, consider grabbing it from http://bit.ly/3vBg88 and making it your FB profile pic!

Firefox addon which maximizes the number of sites you visit which are served via HTTPS. This helps secure you from accidentally negotiating an insecure session with certain sites.

Free Internet Window Washer is a free internet tracks eraser and privacy cleaner software.

Ghostery tracks the trackers and provides a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.

Find out what publicly-searchable information Google has collected about you from www.facebook.com. The search works best if your name is not extremely common. Note: this search only shows publicly-accessible web pages on www.facebook.com. It may not show all personal information that Facebook exposes to the public and to partners through various channels.

This is a flashable zip that installs most of the apps from the Guardian Project. The guardian project is a non-profit organization that is building apps and tools to help users and whistle-blowers alike to stay safe and anonymous in this day and age. This is a faster way to setup a secure/private device. I also encourage enabling Full Disk Encryption in ICS/JB settings.

Surf anonymously, prevent hackers from acquiring your IP address, send anonymous email, and un-ban yourself from Blogs or message boards.

IEraseTraces it's a Windows tool that does, as you probably expected, what the name says handles activity traces (files and folders, registry keys and values).

Linux firewall software.

Infected Macs aren't a rarity any more. This is a list of available antivirus tools

How do I create an account at Mailinator? It's simple, you just send email to it. Temporary accounts are created when email arrives for them. First, you give out the mailinator email address you created, and then you check it. It's that simple.

Mask Surf Lite is an Internet activity anonymizing tool which effectively protects your privacy by hiding or masking you identity while surfing the web.

Internet security tool that protects and does other functions against adware and spyware.

Norton Internet Security provides protection from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, port scans, privacy intrusions, and lurkers that intercept personal information.

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OONI is the Open Observatory for Network Interference and its aim is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software (FL/OSS) to share observations and data about the kind, methods and amount of surveillance and censorship in the world

The OpenBook website is not so much a privacy tool as it is an object lesson about being privacy-conscious on Facebook. The site lets you search through public status updates, many of which are rather embarrassing. (Warning: This site has potentially offensive language.)

Based on the open-source Shadow browser from the University of Cambridge, Orweb works hand in hand with Orbot to provide web access that is able to circumvent web filters and firewalls, while also improving a users ability to remain anonymous online. Orweb also enables whitelist control of cookies, keeps no local history, disables Flash, and requires only Internet permissions, keeping you safe from malicious content. Beyond Tor, Orweb also supports any HTTP proxy server.

Security application suite for PCs.

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Pestagram takes information from one site - the intimate, emotional, mobile Instagram and presents it with the context of Pinterest - the public, aspirational, image packrat site to illustrate the ease with which information and data associated with your person can be used for other unintended circumstances.

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Pixelknot is an Android application that allows users to hide short text-based messages in photographs and share them across trusted channels.

Security for electronic communications.

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PrivacyBucket is a Chrome extension that measures the extent to which individual third-party trackers can discover demographic information about the user.

Email encryption software

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Priveazy aims to be a free one-stop resource for showing people exactly what they can do to protect their online privacy and protect the security of their devices and online accounts.

Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page data, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk.

Greasemonkey script that removes all Facebook social plugins and scripts when browsing non-Facebook websites.

SaveFace™ by Untangle® is a simple-to-install Bookmark utility that automatically resets your Facebook® settings to restore your privacy.

SaveFace sets your privacy settings back to Friends Only, for all the following:

* Contact Information
* Search Settings
* Friends, Tags and Connections
* Personal Information and Posts

Best of all, it's free. Untangle collects no personal information from you or your Facebook when you use this Bookmark utility.

Scans your sent email attachments to ensure private data isn't being sent.

The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables utility, Shorewall configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

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Site Scoper analyzes a website for tracking, cookies and analytics before you visit so you know what information would be gathered.

Anti-spam product for Outlook and Outlook Express.

Tool of hiding information on the contents of the file within another file!

Indicates who is tracking your web browsing, and provides opt-out of targeted ads

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A simple counter for the browser that calculates the value of ad impressions that the user experiences.

The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

The Tor Browser Bundle lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser, and is self-contained. The Tor IM Browser Bundle additionally allows instant messaging and chat over Tor. If you would prefer to use your existing web browser, install Tor permanently, or if you don't use Windows, see the other ways to download Tor.

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In the past, only technically adept users were able to discover the existence of third-party tracking tools on sites they visited or whether these sites honored opt-out and Do Not Track requests, though research has shown that this is a widespread concern in the total online population. TrackingCookie.info provides a browser extension that immediately shows users this information in a visual and easy-to-read format, collated from a new and automated data structure.

UltraSurf is privacy software that allows you to hide IP addresses, clean browsing history as well as highly encrypt your internet connection.

Tools put together at The Wall Street Journal Data Transparency Weekend event in New York on April 13-15, 2012. These tools focus around privacy, security and data transparency.

Your Freedom is anti-censorship software that bypasses firewalls and web proxies making the unaccessible accessible while hiding your network address.