Neowin is one of the most informative techie sites out there, always worth a regular read. Today, they’ve got part one of a reclaim your online privacy series. The tips are quite drastic and in part two they’ll show you how to get some privacy back without going quite so far.

It is very hard to keep a low profile if you are online – Google, Twitter, Facebook etc know a lot more about you than you might imagine and with tracking being high on the un-privacy agenda, it will soon become impossible to keep yourself to yourself.

My mantra has always been – if you don’t want it on the Internet, don’t put it on the Internet

But, Neowin’s round up of privacy reclamation is worth a read either way: How to regain your online privacy: part one – Neowin.net.

First: Download all your data and then delete/deactivate your Google, Facebook, accounts. Ditto Twitter and your Windows Live account. And, obviously, delete all your other accounts. Told you it was drastic.

Now, permanently set your browser to private browsing and run no tracking extensions and anti-cookie plugins as available. Instead of going through your ISP direct when surfing use an anonymized proxy or virtual private network (VPN).

Of course, the most drastic and simplest way is to unplug.