Used by over a million people – Disconnect lets you search privately using your favorite search engine. Your personal info should be your own. But these days thousands of companies invisibly collect your data on the Internet, including the pages you go to and the searches you do. Often, this personal data is packaged and sold without your permission. Understanding online data collection and controlling access to your personal info should be easy. You should be free to move about the Internet without anyone looking over your shoulder and without fear that your online activity might be analyzed, your searches scrutinzed, or your security compromised. Disconnect was founded in 2011 by Brian Kennish, a former Google and DoubleClick engineer; and Casey Oppenheim, a consumer- and privacy-rights advocate and attorney. Today, they develop award-winning, user-friendly privacy and security software in Palo Alto, California. By being an advocate for Internet users everywhere, they hope to create enduring, positive change in the way personal info is handled online. This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™.
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