Privacy and the Internet

A recent op-ed in the New York Times (Has Privacy Become a Luxury Good? by Julia Angwin) posits that we have lost all privacy in the age of Google, the Internet, and online living. We use a free email program like Gmail or Yahoo! and we surf Facebook and Pinterest without paying for a subscription. She says, "we get all those services for free — and we pay with our personal data."

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Check out these tools to protect your privacy online:

• Duck Duck Go: Anonymous search engine that allows you to search without being tracked
• Google Privacy: Tools from Google that protect your privacy (although not necessarily from Google)
• NYT article on Facebook and privacy: Flipping the Switches on Facebook's Privacy Controls
• OFFPocket (from Popular Science): Block GPS tracking on your cellphone (tinfoil and a soup can works, too)
• See also: EPIC.org Electronic Privacy Information Center for more tools
• Books from St. Kate's:
  I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Media and the Death of Privacy by Lori B. Andrews (HM851 .A66 2012)
  Online Privacy: A Reference Book by Gellman and Dixon (e-book)
  Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide by Anita Allen (JC596 .A44 2011