The cold hard reality of using the Internet is that every single time you log on everything about you is being tracked by a million and one different entities, whether you know it or not.

And I’m not just talking about the governmental agencies or cookie stuffing websites looking to sell you some form of modern-day snake oil to fill their less than ethical marketer bank accounts, but also talking about legitimate – and not so legitimate – entities looking to gain access to as much of your personal information as humanly possible to use for their own reasons.

This could be something as simple and subtle as getting you to fill out all of the information that Facebook asks as accurately as humanly possible, or as malicious as sending you real looking emails that secretly back door install all different kinds of malicious software and technology to track each and every one of your keystrokes in an effort to steal your identity. [Read more…]