A growing selection of more details on why and how to free yourself:

• Electronic Frontier Foundation – Defending your Rights in the Digital World – they have tons of whitepapers and technology for you, they also have a very detailed Surveillance Self-Defense website and some great entries on their Deeplinks blog, such as:
  • Choosing the VPN That’s Right for You (and a third-party has put together a guide and reviews on the best VPN for US citizens)
  • A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy
  • What Information is “Personally Identifiable”?
  • Privacy in Online Behavioral Tracking and Targeting
  • Browser Versions Carry 10.5 Bits of Identifying Information on Average
  • New Cookie Technologies: Harder to See and Remove, Widely Used to Track You
• Ixquick – good search engine, actively providing safer searching and browsing, award wining, a really simple privacy policy and do not collect IP addresses or browser user-agent
• DuckDuckGo.com – good search engine, they also operate a tor exit point and have a simple privacy policy and do not collect IP addresses
• Wall Street Journal have some great articles on privacy and violations of, such as:
  • The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets – a detailed story showing how much detail a tiny cookie can hold
  • Google Agonizes on Privacy as Ad World Vaults Ahead – wacky ideas and more from a “vision statement”
  • Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients – how insurance companies can quickly decide how they want to treat you
  • A Web Pioneer Profiles Users by Name – now were getting political
• VPNMash – a great selection of privacy, technology and general Internet security articles