The information new technologies give will allow tracking of a lot of your personal, private information. One way to stop this is to use services that protect you from having your privacy invaded. The Federal Government launched a national Do Not Call List in 2003. This list allows people to take their home and cell phone numbers out of the telemarketing data bases so they are no longer bothered by sales and marketing callers. The Do Not Call list is a service offered by the government and can be found at www.donotcall.gov.

There are also private services that help can help manage privacy. Digitone is a small box that can be placed in your home or office and it will block any numbers you do not want to receive calls from. Along with specific numbers, Digitone will also block full area codes, cell phone numbers, unknown numbers, unavailable numbers and out of area numbers. Digitone can be purchased at www.digitone.com.

Privacy Fortress is a membership site that helps people hide their true physical address from public records, disappear from electronic databases, and have private safe bank accounts in the U.S. This service can be found at www.privacyfortress.com.

Reputation Defender dot com is a service that helps people manage their online reputation, their children’s online reputation and online privacy. With their service, they watch out to make sure most personal data isn’t anywhere that identity thieves, marketers or nosy people can find it. This service can be found at www.reputationdefender.com.

You deny dot com is an email encryption program that allows you to encrypt and decrypt emails without using a black box program. With black box programs, there is no way to make sure your emails are not being kept and decrypted by their services but with you deny dot com, you can see all of the code and be insured that your emails are only going to the people who should be receiving them. This online service can be found at www.youdeny.com.