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Online privacy: Five tools to keep you safer

By Brien Posey April 2, 2015, 4:12 AM PDT

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As awesome as the internet is, it might also be the biggestrnthreat to personal privacy the world has ever known. But even though it’s toughrnto guarantee total privacy in a connected world, a number of tools can help yournto maintain some degree of personal privacy. Let’s look at five suchrnutilities.

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The Premium version ($39/year or $59/two years) adds creditrncard and phone masking, along with backup and sync.

Blurrnis available for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

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The coolest thing about Web of Trust is that it doesn’t justrnwork for the site that you’re visiting — it works within search engines, too.rnSearch results displayed within a search engine such as Bing will include thernWeb of Trust color code.

Web ofrnTrust is available for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

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Spotflux does prompt you to create an account, but you willrnneed to do so only if you plan to use the premium service. Otherwise, you canrnskip the account registration process.

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CyberScrub Privacy Suite

CyberScrub Privacy Suite

CyberScrub is application aware and can remove evidencernfrom a variety of browsers, applications, email and newsreaders, and peer-to-peerrnprograms.

CyberScrub Privacy Suite sells for $59.95, but a free 15-dayrntrial is available for download.

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