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The odd thing is that so many people (even here) seem to be totally unconcerned about the lack of privacy.
Can you have privacy in these times? First, it's a spectrum, from totally open to completely private. You can shift where you are on the spectrum, although you'll never achieve total privacy. it becomes "at what level of paranoia are yiou willing to function at. Here's some privacy enhancers. (They all cost money and time.!)
1. Two computers. One for internet and one never hooked up (the private machine), with a KMV switcher. What's on the private machine stays on the private machine (with a nod to Vegas adverts). Aspire Revos go for $200 US.
2. WiFi hotspots. A little more expensive and tricky. A free email address set up to a false name and address, set up on a netbook that you bought over-the-counter at a store for cash. Only use it at public WiFi hotspots. Track to who?
3. Only buy gadgets without any 3G/WiFi hookups. No instant gratification, but nobody able to track you either.
Just some samples. It's like burglary, it's impossible to stop it completely, but you can harden the target. but like all security/insurance, it cost money/time. Choose your own level of paranoia....
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