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Secret Disk: Create Private & hidden virtual drive, & password-protect it

Secret Disk is a free tool that lets you create secret hidden virtual drives, which can be used to hide your data. You can even password protect these virtual drives. Secret Disk is available in two variants, Free and PRO. [...]

SafeIP: Hide, Change IP address, Surf Anonymously

There may be times when you may want to hide your IP address or change your IP address. In such cases, using a freeware makes things easier. SafeIP is one such free software for Windows 7 | 8, that will let [...]

USBOblivion: Erase all traces of old connected USB Drives from Windows PC

Every time you connect a USB to your computer, it creates registry entries and leaves traces behind. Over a period of time, I am sure you may have connected many different USB or Flash drives to your Windows computer. And [...]

Anti Tracks 9.0.1 Free gets many new features & a cool UI

We had covered Anti Tracks Free, the privacy cleaning tool for Windows, a few months back. Since then the freeware seems to have received a total overhaul, with a cool new user-interface and some great new features. Anti Tracks Free As we [...]

Tips to stay safe from the prying eyes of Facebook Search Graph

Facebook has launched its Search Graph. What you now share on your Facebook wall, what you Like, pages you have Liked, Groups you are a part of – all this will now be available as search results. For instance, if [...]

Best Facebook Privacy Settings

Only last week, news media all over the planet carried news about Zuckerberg’s own sister not being able to understand Facebook privacy settings. News was that a personal photograph shared with friends leaked all over the social networking website. Obviously, [...]

Download set of brochures on Computer Security, Data Privacy, Online Safety from Microsoft

Under the aegis of its Digital Citizenship in Action initiative, Microsoft has released and made available for download a bunch of documents, brochures, guides, toolkits, factsheets and tip cards for students, parents, educators, policymakers and NGOs. The set of downloads [...]

Privacy Options in Microsoft Office 2013 Suite

Microsoft Office 2013 Suite offers a lot of features to its users. The suite integrates quite easily with Microsoft’s online storage service SkyDrive. The arrangement ensures that documents are made available to the users wherever they need them. Having said [...]

Facebook Privacy Watcher: Manage Your Facebook Privacy Settings

I am a regular Facebook user but despite being a regular user. I find its privacy settings quite confusing.The Facebook team keeps on bringing the new updates on site and with every update, privacy settings need to be changed and [...]

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Privacy Manager for Chrome: Manage All Your Privacy Options With Ease

If you like keeping your privacy settings such as History, Cookies, etc always under check, give Privacy Manager a try! Privacy Manager for Google Chrome is a web browser extension that lets you access all your Chrome privacy settings in a [...]

PrivacyFix Review: Protect your privacy on the Internet

Yesterday, we posted about how companies like Google, Facebook, etc track your online activities and profit from the data generated. As mentioned, there are several tools to fix and prevent data collection. One of them is PrivacyFix. Privacy Fix – Stop Websites From [...]

How Much Are You Worth Online To Companies Like Google & Facebook

It is no hidden fact that Google keeps a tab on what all you are doing on the Internet. From your searches to links you click to websites you visit to the IP address you logged in from and other [...]

UltraSurf Review: Free Proxy based Privacy Tool for Risk Blogging & Anonymous Reporting

There is a lot of talk on Internet censorship. The US almost blocked several sites meant to sharing things. It took millions of phone calls and protests – both online and offline – to stop the senate from passing the [...]

Prevent websites from tracking your location, by disabling Geolocation in your browser

Geolocation is a relatively new feature in the recent versions of most browsers. It allows websites to track your physical location, ostensibly, with a view to offer you location related search results, services or options. You may have noticed that [...]

Anti Tracks Free: Protect sensitive data, privacy, online identity and computer usage pattern

Every time you work on your Windows computer or browse the Internet, you leave tracks behind on your computer. Every time you search on your PC or open or create files, you leave traces behind. Every time you visit a [...]

BrowsingHistoryView: View Browsing History of 4 browsers at the same time

We live in a generation where deleting history is considered more important than creating it. Not only does this help in protecting your privacy but also keep the system clean and healthy. Windows stores history of most things, like what [...]

SRWare Iron Browser: A Secure, Privacy conscious, Chrome based web browser

There is really no dearth of alternative browsers available for Windows. Just yesterday we read about Sleipner browser. Today we will have a look at another browser for Windows. Users love using Chrome, but many want a more private and [...]

Comodo Dragon: Chrome based browser with additional security & privacy features

The Chrome web browser’s market share has been galloping in the recent past and has become a very popular browser in a short time. If, for some reason you haven’t liked the Chrome but admired it for its potential and searched [...]

Review of Tor Browser: Protect Your Privacy and Surf Web Safely

Tor is an acronym that stands for The Onion Router. While the name suggests it is a router, it is actually a browser. Tor is the browser that stands for anonymity and privacy on the Internet. This review of Tor [...]

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