It can even threaten your job and physical safety by revealing who and where you are. This can impact your checkbook if, for example, an e-commerce site uses price discrimination based on your country or institution of origin. Knowing the source and destination of your Internet traffic allows others to track your behavior and interests.

Using Tor protects you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as 'traffic analysis.' Traffic analysis can be used to infer who is talking to whom over a public network.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) use Tor to allow their workers to connect to their home website while they're in a foreign country, without notifying everybody nearby that they're working with that organization. Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and dissidents. Individuals also use Tor for socially sensitive communication: chat rooms and web forums for rape and abuse survivors, or people with illnesses. Tor's hidden services let users publish web sites and other services without needing to reveal the location of the site. Individuals use Tor to keep websites from tracking them and their family members, or to connect to news sites, instant messaging services, or the like when these are blocked by their local Internet providers. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features.

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. * Tor is free and open source for Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix, and Android

* Tor is for web browsers, instant messaging clients, and more. * Tor prevents people from learning your location or browsing habits. Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis.

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