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How the internet can read your mind

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Short (under 3 minute) New Scientist video on how our on-line presence can be analysed to learn more about us than you'd ever believe possible.

While not CLL related, it is something to think about for those of us who would like to protect our on-line anonymity.

youtube.com/watch?v=HDe7dDS...

I'll follow this up with some tips on how we can take back some control over our on-line footprint by reducing opportunities for web tracking and data analytics.

Neil

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One simple way is to use a proxy server. There are many public proxy servers out there. I use HideMyAss whenever I want to surf anonymously, hidemyass.com.

There are 100s of others, of course.

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