How do I keep my private business private in this day and age?

Question

How does one maintain personal privacy and freedom in this day and age?

Answer 1

Avoid using the internet.

Answer 2

1. When using the Internet use an Anonymous Proxy, so no one knows where you have been
2. Dont tell anyone anything ( especially females)
3. Dont keep a Diary
4. Password should be at least 15 digits long and alphanumeric
5. Numbered bank accounts in Switzerland only ( Only they have Secrecy laws)
6. Fly under the radar (eg: pay some tax so the Tax office does not get suspicious)
7. Dont leave DNA behind

Answer 3

All the above are correct.
Don't use the Internet.
Don't get a bank account.
NEVER NEVER EVER, get a credit card.
Don't purchase anything except with cash. Even then purchases over $10,000 have to be reported DIRECTLY to the IRS before they can be approved.
Don't get a job.
Never sign up for anything.
And others too numerous to list.

All these things require a report to someone else, and who knows where the data goes from there.

This is just my guesstimate but within the next 10 years every ones ID will be stolen an average of 3-4 times. (If things keep going like they currently are.)
See source below and working with Internet Security
That's where my Guesstimate comes from.

Answer 4

I was on a private phone call the other day and I thought I was alone. I lit a cigarette and opened the front door to walk outside on my porch to smoke (while on the phone).

I swung the door open, and my little dog (who hangs out on the porch usually) moved really fast, kind of tripped over herself, and sat down casually ... like nothing was going on. That's when I noticed it ... a small drinking glass sitting next to her little paw!!!! She had it pushed up against the door, trying to "James Bond" on my conversation!!! How could she ??? She's been coming home with "treats" (steak, bacon, ham hocks) from the neighbors house for some time now, and thought they were just being nice to her!!! Little did I know, they were bribing her for secret info stuff and she turned on me ... now I know where the neighbors are getting all their gossip!

Lesson learned: trust no one .. and for God's sake, give your dog a bone, before someone else does :)

I try to keep a good sense of humor about it all. In this small town, people will talk ... especially when they have nothing good to talk about. They love to make things up :) As long as I'm living right, and not doing anything to hurt others, I just live with it, and laugh at it.

Answer 5

Don't keep details on a computer or say them over the phone, shred all paperwork, don't tell anyone anything.
But
You will still be tracked by cctv cameras, bank account info, electoral register & by the info other places have of you like the tax office, doctor, hospital, birth certificates etc
No-one can be totally private anymore, that time has gone forever

Answer 6

Offshore bank accounts. The Caymans. Uruquay. Switzerland.

Answer 7

Don't tell anyone anything about you, remove your name from the phone book, don't go on line from home, use a false name and log on else where, keep moving around.
Don't have a social live, don't have a girlfriend/boyfriend, if you don't tell them anything.
Don't ask questions on here because it provides a means of finding out things about you, what you are interested in etc.

Answer 8

Do not discuss your private business with any one then it can not come back to you the wrong way, just keep your mouth zipped and just tell people what you want to know and keep the rest safe, don;t be gull able like me.

Answer 9

Name, social security number and drivers license are all is needed to find out a lot more than you may want known. With those three things one could obtain your credit history & score, where you lived/lived, medical information, driving record, criminal history and more things than I can even imagine.

Answer 10

Honestly don't give out personal information to anyone! Pretty much if there is info. stored somewhere someone has or is looking for a way to get it seriously!