Which Companies Make Efforts to Protect Your Information?

So many times we live for the moment --save it or buy it quickly without thinking that there may be a reason not to put our information out there for all to see or find. If you delete your account or last post, is it really deleted from the companies' servers? It's something to think about as we work in the Center and sometimes recommend these online tools or resources. The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently assessed company practices and policies for protecting your privacy and data online and you can quickly scan this list for some of your favorite companies and think about this, the next time you use them... As a side note, the Library tries very hard to protect user data. As just one example, we clear the circulation history throughout the day and all of the computers have Deep Freeze so that data added by a user is wiped and the computer is fresh on restart. Don't forget to restart!