Online Privacy settings

After continously delving deeper into the world of online everything we usually don't consider where all of the information we put online is going, who all is seeing it, and the proper ways to keep it from the wrong hands. I recently ran across a website at http://www.eff.org/wp/effs-top-12-ways-protect-your-online-privacy , that explains 12 ways to keep your info from the bad guys. Apparently there are several ways to configure your web browser and explorer to block people from phishing your personal details. The website also gives some advice to manage your "cookies" which store temporary online files. They reccomend a software from  http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/ijb.html to do this. I think if you visit this site and seriously consider the possibilities of being corrupted weighed against the ease of protecting yourself, it will definitely change your perspective. Another way they say to protect yourself is to have more than one email address and keep one "clean". By clean they mean keep your primary email devoted to friends, family, and trusted associates. While having your clean email address, use another email address to converse with unknown business or online orders. There are several ways to protect your privacy, probably much better than what you're doing now, and in the end will probably save you some headache.