Safe Shephard is an online privacy protection service that assists you in managing the personal information that you want to allow marketing and consumer information collection companies to gather and store.

This article from "Ian's Blog" a blog by a privacy and security architect named Ian Oliver provides some basic and not so basic information regarding personally identifiable information or PII.

The Quantified Self website provides a current list of many of the self-tracking tools out there.

This YouTube video provided by the National Learning Consortium gives a quick overview of why patients and consumers might be interested in using the Blue Button application which allows people to download personal health information.

From the HealthIT.Gov website: "Blue Button" is a way for you to get easy, secure online access to your health information. To "Blue Button" means you can "download your health data" so you can use it to improve your health and be more engaged in your healthcare. As Americans, we each have the legal right to access our own health information held by doctors, hospitals and others that provide health care services for us. But many of us don't, either because we don't know we can, or because we're not sure what to do with our health information once we have it. Until recently, most medical information was stored in paper files, so it wasn't very easy to access or use anyhow. But all that is changing as more health care providers (doctors and hospitals) adopt electronic health record systems and other health information technology (health IT). Patients will have more opportunities to get access to their health records electronically and to engage with their clinical teams about their medical records.