The past 24 months have brought a steady stream of revelations about bulk collection of metadata, and often content, of communications via the Internet. From national security agencies intercepting data that's later used for industrial espionage, to media companies installing intrusive - and sometimes illegal - software in the name of digital rights management (DRM), to tech industry giants data-mining email from free services and pushing cookies that track our day-to-day travels around the Internet, our private personal and corporate communications are under surveillance every day. Fortunately, there are practical, realistic, everyday actions that individuals and corporations can take to protect our privacy, civil liberties, and intellectual property from this intrusive assault. Technology offers many tools for anonymity and data protection - almost too many. Which are worth the effort? How do you know what actually works? This session will discuss the social and cultural implications of bulk data collection - How much is too much? What are you really paying for that "free" service? Where do we draw the line on government agencies collecting communications data? - and provide an overview of encryption and privacy technology individuals and organizations can use to begin to protect our private communications and intellectual property from eavesdropping and tracking.