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from The Privacy Times
“Priveazy.com” has launched to help Internet users protect their privacy and navigate the labyrinthine of privacy policies and settings. The site offers lessons on how to browse the Web safely, block Web trackers, make Windows more secure, and protect your email account.
It offers step by step directions for tasks like upgrading your browser or turning off third-party cookies. Priveazy currently is free. Founder Jay Herbison said the site is a labor of love for founder and his small staff, but he has plans to turn it into a for-profit venture at some point.
“We have identified four or five ways we could make money, but advertising isn’t one of them,” he told IT World’s Dan Tynan. “It’s simply not in our DNA. We will never share our users’ information with third parties or make money on the backs of people’s data. We just want get privacy awareness out there and empower people who are not IT pros about how to make the necessary changes to protect their privacy.”
As the site grows, Herbison said he plans to add lessons on how to lock down your Twitter and Linked-In accounts, protect individuals’ passwords, secure home WiFi network, prevent identity theft, and keep data snoops from slurping up your location information.
The site has a simple privacy policy, in part because the only bits of identifiable information Priveazy collects are visitors’ email IP addresses, with the latter is discarded after 72 hours.
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