The Right Choice Requires the Right Information

     There are many excellent reasons why one should care about protecting their contact and personal history information; these reasons along with instructions on how to do it can be found via the links listed below. RIT was founded to provide companies that care about their customers and privacy a resource to lower risk by improving the qualifying process without exposing their customers to competitors or exploitation.

     Unfortunately, national marketing companies and data aggregators often glean information on consumers without their direct knowledge or permission. This information is combined with other data and then analyzed to extrapolate patterns and habits about which the consumer may not even be aware. This new data is then sold to as many companies as possible for the explicit purpose of encouraging consumers to purchase more goods and products than they would otherwise need or want.  Of course the companies gathering, selling, buying and using the information all claim that this is legal and not exploitation, but rather a service to help the consumer by offering them goods and services in which they are interested.  However, the primary purpose of these activities is to sell more products in any way they can. If by some remote possibility a consumer is actually helped, it is by mere chance.  More likely results include overextending the consumer financially, which often leads to embarrassment, bankruptcy or worse.

      RIT believes strongly that consumers should control who has access to their personal data and history.  Consumers are fully capable and in a better position to decide for themselves, what goods and services they are interested in receiving offers for. 

     Often consumers believe that only the one trusted company they are directly doing business with will have access to their private information and payment history; when in reality, an unlimited number of third-party and affiliated companies may as well. Just one seemingly benign phrase in small print within an application or privacy policy can expose one’s private data to the world.  Fortunately, some companies actually care about and protect their customers’ privacy; RIT exists to help them.

      RIT would like to acknowledge these consumer friendly companies by continuing to develop tools that help protect their client lists, customers, their customer’s privacy and privacy in general.  Please check back often as breakthroughs will be announced on this web site.  Thank you for your support.

Why & How to Protect Your Privacy Links:  

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

                        http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html

American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU)

                        http://www.aclu.org/privacy/consumer/index.html

Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)

                        http://www.cdt.org/privacy/guide/start/ and

                        http://www.cdt.org/privacy/guide/basic/

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

                        http://www.epic.org/ and

                        http://www.epic.org/privacy/privacy_resources_faq.html

Tools from Epic

                        http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation

                        http://www.eff.org/

National Consumer League (NCL)

http://www.nclnet.org/privacy/

Your Privacy Rights

                        http://www.privacy.gov.au/privacy_rights/index.html

Privacy International (PI)

            http://www.privacyinternational.org/

In Defense of Freedom

            http://www.indefenseoffreedom.org/

The Heritage Foundation          

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/lm11.cfm

Report Privacy Violation Links:

The FTC

                        https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

                        http://www.privacyrights.org/

Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC)

                        http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.shtml