20 Great Windows downloads for Data Privacy Day 2009!

Today marks the second "celebration" of Data Privacy Day, an event put together by the good folks at Intel and other groups including the EU, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.

The goal is to increase awareness of privacy practices and rights and create discussion. It only seems appropriate for DownloadSquad to provide some links to applications that have been created with privacy protection in mind.

Here's my list - feel free to chime in with your own additions in the comments!

File and Disk Encryption Tools:

• Drag'n'Crypt Ultra
• Free OTFE
• Rohos MiniDrive [ writeup ]
  
• TrueCrypt [ writeup ]

Password Vaults:

• KeePass [ writeup ]
  
• Password Safe
• LastPass [ writeup ]
  

Personal Infomation - notes, contacts, and the like:

• Essential PIM
  
• LockNote
  
• NoteCase

Web Browsers with privacy enhancements built-in:

• Maxthon
• OperaTor [ writeup ]
  
• QtWeb
• SRWare Iron
• XB Browser [ writeup ]
  

Proxy tools:

• Portable Tor [ writeup ]
  
• Privoxy

Instant Messaging:

• Miranda
  
• Pidgin
• Massive comparison of IM clients on Wikipedia shows which offer encryption
  

Tags: data, privacy, security