I will not link to Viral Marketing Aw sod it, most of you have probably seen it by now.
Go tell the Subservient Chicken what to do, and watch as the strange man in the chicken suit obey your every whim.
Then go eat a Burger King
No Really

And just in case you thought I was being parnoid the other day, El Reg points out that the European Union have concluded that Echelon exists and is illegal.

Know Your Data Campaign has form letters to obtain the personal information your ISP, mobile and standard phone companies.
I also think you can request any CCTV footage which contains your image for a nominal fee, but you should have a look at CCTV Systems and the Data Protection Act Guidance for more information.
To encrypt your email, search to see if there is a PGP plugin for your email program, or you could just encrypt the text of it or any file using something like GNUPG or PGPi.

In other privacy news, there's been a bit of fuss about Gmail's privacy policy, but there's a good article about how Gmail isn't really doing anything all that bad, or new. Most big webmail providers scan emails (for virus and spam) already. Also, do you think all the other email providers go through their back up tapes and delete the email you do?

p.s. This has nothing to do with me joining the legions of Blogger.com users who have been invited to beta test Gmail.

I'm torn between whether to love Enemy of the state as a warning to the film viewing masses about the loss of privacy, or to scream at it for having moments like; A cctv camera which can playback at 90 degrees to the angle it was recoding at, and show what's behind people, or Brill hacking in to the NSA personel files from a room he's just explained has no connection to the outside world. Arrgh!

I have a few good links about privacy at home and I'll put them up this evening.
But to get on with have a good look at Menwith Hill, the largest electronic monitoring station in the world (a US base in the heart of England), and part of Project Echelon (a real project by 5 nations to intercept, moniter, and process all electronic (phone, email, www, etc) comunications).

[Edit] Here's my old newsgroup sig. Very in keeping.
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Bomb, Kill, President, Prime minister, Anthrax. (Hello GCHQ)