A handful of software companies are ringing online privacy bells as the holiday season approaches, urging consumers to give themselves the gift of Internet anonymity before venturing online to shop. Privacy companies were out in force Monday night for a mini . . .
A handful of software companies are ringing online privacy bells as the holiday season approaches, urging consumers to give themselves the gift of Internet anonymity before venturing online to shop. Privacy companies were out in force Monday night for a mini tech fair at the University of California at Berkeley, showcasing wares that included self-destructing email, pseudonym makers and data scramblers to protect credit card information. Although hopes run high that consumers will gravitate to such products, enthusiasm was tempered by scepticism among the 75 or so attendees at the Berkeley show.

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