Concerns about privacy are not new. But the computer’s ability to gather and sort vast amounts of data and the Internet’s ability to distribute it globally magnify concerns.

IP Privacy is a privacy protection tool that hides your computer IP address preventing your surfing habits and your internet activity from being tracked by websites or Internet Service Providers. The application is both anonymous browsing software and a browser cleaner which means that the risk of being tracked by thieves is lower to zero.

The main functionalities of IP Privacy are:

Online anonymity – is achieved when the user enables anonymous browsing and surfs the web using a fake IP address. Online anonymity allows users to check mails, participate in newsgroups using proxies from different countries without worrying about the online security.

• Premium proxies – high quality proxies included in IP Privacy allow you to surf the Web safely without affecting your browsing speed.

• Add Proxy – manually adding a specific proxy to the current list is an important feature of online anonymity. If you feel the need of using a proxy from a specific country you can find a proxy from that country and get it to the list.

• Live Update. Even if you add proxies into the list, you can periodically check whether IP Privacy developers had embedded some new proxies to the list.

• Already tested proxies – when testing the availability of a specific proxy you can find out the proxy’s response time so you can decide whether to keep it or not. To make this easier there is a list where all the already tested proxies are saved for further use.

Online Privacy and Protection. Users might achieve an adequate level of privacy through controlled expose of personal information. Getting Internet anonymity to ensure privacy is not enough. You need an application like IP Privacy that can be scheduled to periodically delete your internet history, cookies, auto complete forms in order to get the privacy and security you need. IP privacy will:

• Clear Internet History

• Clear Typed URL

• Clear Temporary Internet Files

• Clear Cookies – is important to delete them because some types of cookies are classified as a “tracking cookie”

• Clear Auto Complete Forms History

• Clear Auto complete Password History - if a third party has enough access to the computer, legitimately or not, the user's privacy may be compromised

• Clear Internet Favorites

• Block Invasive code like ActivX and JavaScript. ActiveX controls add interest to sites through multimedia but the controls can also harbor malicious code such as viruses. Most sites will function properly with ActiveX controls disabled. Java Script code may be used in harmful way such as to collect information on your computer.