Internet Privacy News
presented to you by Total Internet Privacy

 

About
Articles
Contact

Privacy News

Internet Privacy Tools

TIP Tunnel VPN

Complete internet surfing anonymity via high anonymous proxy OR your own Virtual Private Network (VPN). Absolutely no records kept.

TIP Tunnel Vault

The TIP Vault is the best and safest file transfer system on the internet. Upload your files and give access to only the one IP address YOU nominate. Encrypted and no one knows what you send and who you send it to but YOU,

 

 

 

Internet Fraud?

image 1

Identity Theft

There is a boom in identity theft as we speak. Approximately eight million people fell victim to an identity theft or fraud in 2006. It is not easy to pinpoint the exact reason for this huge increase in a crime that hardly existed 15 years ago or at least went by various other names like check fraud perpetrated by a confidence trickster or con artist. There is an obvious correlation between identity theft and the rise of information technology and the Internet.

 

read more

Identity Theft?

image 2

Identity Theft

Internet users are putting themselves at risk by posting sensitive information on social networking websites, such as Facebook and Myspace, according a new survey.

Research released today by Get Safe online shows that one in four social networking users questioned had posted confidential personal information, such as their phone number or address, on their social networking profiles.

 

read more

Who is Watching?

image one

Websites which publish people’s personal details such as their criminal record or sexual preferences will face heavy fines if the privacy protection body CBP gets its way.

The organisation has just published new recommendations to increase internet privacy which would give people the right to demand information about them is removed from websites.

‘The publication of personal details on the internet can follow people for years,’ the CBP notes. ‘Personal details should therefore be used with caution, particularly on the internet.’

read more