Privacy Guide

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This option is only for people who want to get away from the current digital society and start again.
It’s definitively not for everybody.
Choices:

• Remove yourself from internet search results & hide your identity. Tools to search for your images and other data: Talkwalker Alerts, TinEye & Google Image Search.
  Find out the website on which your data is hosted and file a DMCA takedown request.
  If the individual website owner doesn’t remove the data, then you can forward the DMCA notice to the hosting company on which servers the data is stored.
  Tools for finding out the hosting company: CheckHost & NStools. The majority of hosting companies are legally obliged to respect DMCA notices. If some stolen images or videos depict a child, then you can freely contact the police.

• Accounts, tools usage & companies, apply to be erased/forgotten, create different personalities, use different emails.

• How to destroy all the data on your hard drive: 1. Delete all the files. 2. Boil the hard drive. 3. Smash it with a hammer. 4. Run a Degausser/electromagnetic wand over the drive to obliterate all information it may contain. 5. Send it in a electronic devices recucling bin. Diclaimer: This is dangerous and not environmentally friendly and we do not advise anyone to do this.

• Collect all your personal photos, videos, notes and put them in an external HDD. Make a backup copy on another external HDD. Then put it in a Faraday bag and now you know where everything is. This is the best option instead of having all your data on 10 social media accounts, 4 smartphones, 2 tablets, 2 PCs, 3 laptops, 4 cloud accounts, 5 email accounts, and if one gets hacked you have no idea what they got.

• Shred all your personal info and unused credit cards/bank statements/etc with a Micro-cut shredder. Then take the shredded material and spread it around in a bunch of trash bags and leave the bags at various dumpsters around the city, or if it’s winter use it as heating material.

• Don’t terminate your social network sites as you can use these sites to provide disinformation.

• For maximum anonymity, get rid of all your electronic devices (tablets & smartphones).  If you want to take it to the next level, wipe all of your info from your smartphone and then you can leave it at a train or bus station so that someone else will pick it up and start using it, thus providing a source of disinformation.

• If you drive a car and you don’t want your routes to be tracked, the only way for slight privacy is to avoid the interstate highways. Also, get rid of the GPS device that comes with the car. The GPS device can also be activated remotely and be used to listen in on your conversations. Make sure your tires don’t have RFID chips in them. Get rid of the toll pass that can track your movements through the RFID chip in the pass. Some countries do not give YOU the right to remove some devices from YOUR CAR, so research the restrictions in your area.

• Shop at non-chain shops and restaurants.

• Pay for everything with cash.

• Use alcohol wipes to remove fingerprints.

• When you are out in public, disguises you can wear are a beard, hat and sunglasses.

• Get your food to go from restaurants, so you don’t leave DNA on the plates, utensils and glasses.

• When traveling, stay in small motels, pay with cash, cover the peephole and sleep in your sleeping bag so no DNA is left behind.

• How to check a room: Use a Multi Sweep Hidden Camera & Bug Detector to check for hidden bugs/cameras/etc.

• Buy a basic pre-paid cell phone (not a smartphone) which you only use for outgoing calls (turn off the caller ID). Replace the pre-paid phone frequently, about every 2 weeks. When you are not using the cell phone, remove the battery. Check the laws it that certain country if this is possible.

• At night you can avoid being seen on cameras that use infrared light (90% do) by fashioning a cap with LED lights on the front of it that makes a “halo” and shields your face from the cameras. Looks silly but works.

• If you want to restart your life:
  Pick a mid-sized city with a good climate. Big cities and small towns are not good places for anonymity.
  To change your identity, petition the court to change your name legally to a new and common name.
  Apply for a drivers’ license under your new name.
  Use an RFID-blocking wallet and place the driver’s licenses, passports, ID’s and everything else that has an RFID chip in it.
  Use a new laptop to get back online. Stay away from libraries.
  Always connect to the internet through an Ethernet cable and never a wi-fi.
  Put a cover over your webcam and a dummy mic, or just remove them physically from the device.
  Install anti-keylogger software on your laptop.
  To connect on the internet always use VPN or Tor.
  Be aware of the existence of technology that scans the internet for specific keywords and messages. When it finds those specific words it pings the agencies’ servers and initiates an automated tracking.
  When shopping never use store club cards.
  Be aware that nearly all food packaging now contains RFID tags. To be sure that those aren’t used for tracking repackage food once you purchase it and get rid of the store packaging.
  Change jobs often.
  Create a “back story” for your new identity and practice it.
  Open a bank account, preferably at a small, local credit union.
  Be aware of video surveillance cameras which are everywhere.
  Avoid contacting people from your past.
  Airlines sometimes put locator chips on your bags so be aware of this.
  The less you interface with technology, the more anonymous you will be.