"You have zero privacy anyway, Get over it." -
Scott McNealy, Chief Executive Officer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

 This is just a statement. Of course we reserve the right
to change this policy at any time and we may or may not
update this page. Since there is no law that
says we have to, why bother.

If you do not want to provide any information to us and
wish to remain completely anonymous (to us anyway)
then don't visit the site, or check out the folks at Zero
Knowledge (we sure hope they go gold soon). Just by
visiting you are giving us information about you.
Information we log, and store, and look at, and analyze
and drool over while we drink beer.
Yes, we lead exciting lives.

By connecting to us via http (the web) you provide us,
and any other web site, your IP address, your browser
type, your operating system, etc... all standard web log
stuff. Nothing to personal. If your DNS actually resolves
then we can find out approximately what part of the world
you are in and who your ISP is. Do we have time to do all
that? No. Do we want to? No. Do we care? No. Does it all
get written down in logs for us to look at if we so choose?
Yes.

If you choose to send us mail with the likes of HotMail,
Yahoo, or any one of the dozens of other free email
services you should be aware that the IP address of the
person who composed the email is usually stored within
the header. Again, we don't do anything with this
information other than to determine where certain stories
are from.

Email is stored locally for approximately one year,
sometimes less, sometimes more. Depends on how much
we have had to drink and how full the hard drive is. Then
it gets deleted never to be seen again. At the moment the
machine that email is stored on is not backed up so don't
worry about the feds taking all of our old tapes. We will
absolutely NOT harvest email address from our received
email and sell them to advertisers (Yes, we have been
asked to sell such lists). SPAM is evil, and must be
stopped. We will not contribute to its propagation under
any circumstances!

Speaking of the authorities, if they ever show up with a
search warrant they can gladly have all of our equipment.
I just hope they bring a very large truck and several burly
moving men. What this means to you is DO NOT send us
email about illegal activities you are planning. This only
implicates us and forces us to inform the authorities. Yes,
we will do that. We have a moral obligation to report
crimes and do not encourage such activities.

So what can you do about your general lack of privacy?
First, stop giving it away, stop filling out questionaires or
applying for things you don't need. Second, follow some of
these links and learn some more.
 
 

NewOrder Box - Lots of Privacy and Anonymity Links

The Electronic Frontier Foundation - Fighters for Online Privacy