With the recent scandals involving invasions of personal privacy, more Americans are thinking about personal privacy and considering alternatives to the companies Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and YouTube - companies that have been accused of participating in a government surveillance program.

There are also email providers that offer a private alternative to Google's Gmail: Hushmail and MyMail.

The following video is from DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track its visitors. The video explains how privacy can be abused by search engines. Another search engine that offers confidential search is Ixquick.

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