USA: Act today against CISPA spying bill - your freedom depends on it

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Surveillance Self-Defense

Twitter and Facebook and sharing icons - follow @AllCityPlague

You might have noticed that I removed sharing icons from this blog. It's not that I don't want you to share posts, it's that I want to help preserve the online privacy of my blog readers from the icons, which can track you across the web.

Sharing on social nets is fun though, and I encourage you to do it the old fashioned way whenever you wish, by copying the web address in your browser window.

For the record, I also don't have a Facebook profile (not planning to) or an Art Crimes Twitter presence. If you see "art crimes" posing on a social network, they are either just fronting or some UK arts organization or other poorly named unrelated group.

I'm very grateful to @AllCityPlague who has been tweeting Art Crimes news and events postings, so you all should follow him or her on Twitter if that's where you wish to get your news.

Peace,

Susan

Privacy Alert: Change and delete your Google Search history before the end of February

Got a nickname? Google + wants your driver's license or else.

Google’s no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet

Google plans to track you all across its web property, and you can't opt out

Google's new "privacy" policy - Washington Post explains.

Some Google employees are upset, but boss says, my way or the highway.

Here are some things you can do.

Get Firefox
Get DuckDuckGo search plugin

Log out of Google, YouTube, Picassa, Blogger, Gmail, G+, and so on, when you're done using one, so you're not dragging your browsing history around for them to collect.

Sure, it's a tiny hassle to log back in, but you can keep your passwords in a password safe app on your phone.

(You're not reusing your passwords, are you?? Good. Because passwords keep getting posted publicly on the internet.)

Your activities are being collected by DoubleClick, which Google owns also, and Google ads, even when you are not on a Google-owned website.

So get an ad blocker too. Adblock Plus is great.

How to surf anonymously, like hackers do

More info on Facebook's tracking of everyone (less technical this time)

Delete Facebook cookies or they track you across the Web

Internet privacy: AirVPN

Facebook grabs your phone contacts so it can spam them