A new privacy tool called MaskMe may help people evade data harvesting efforts by websites and marketers. Many of the components of MaskMe, created by the privacy software developer Abine, are individually available elsewhere. But Abine has meshed them together into a convenient extension for the Chrome and Firefox browsers. MaskMe comes in a free and premium version. The free version lets users generate a unique alias email address that users can give to, for example, an e-commerce website if they fear they will receive too many messages later. MaskMe forwards email from the alias address to a person's regular account. Users can shut off the forwarding if they get annoyed with a particular sender. The free version also has a strong password generator and secure storage for those passwords, a service available in many other products. MaskMe encrypts account information and then autofills that information into forms. Abine is hoping to make money with a US$5-a-month premium version with several other tools. Read more http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044981/tired-of-spam-hand-out-a-disposable-email-address.html
