Recent (and perennial) discussion has touched upon the ethics of network service and content providers that require a significant amount of personal information (and what they do with it), along with reasons some of us may not want to disclose such information, or that we should be recommending the development of community oriented/owned network infrastuctures that take this as a starting point. Concerns for protecting one's identity (and personal privacy) are likely to grow, so there will be an increasing demand for services or technologies that offer some degree/promise of protection. I'm sure many of us have been using work-arounds, or even some of the services that have emerged recently. What measures do you take to protect yourself (or what services and software have you used) against the following hazards of the information age : Identity Theft Email/Identity Spoofing Spam/Harvesting Other unwanted communications/General Privacy issues Commercialization of our Personal Info... (Add some hazards of your own!!! My list isnt meant to be exhaustive.) What has been your experience or satisfaction with your method? What needs to be improved? Would changes to infrastructure or design reduce some of these problems? Are there policies we should advocate? Are there practices we could recommend to the community or to organizations? Regards, =Michael.Maranda PS I'm interested in testing Identity Commons, where I've recently contributed to the cause as an early adopter. Not sure what good it will do me until I learn to use the service effectively-and perhaps until the service is more developed.