Privacy Guides
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
This is a community for sharing news about privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting advice about your privacy journey.
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Additional Resources:
- EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense
- Consumer Reports Security Planner
- Jonah Aragon (YouTube)
- r/Privacy
- Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
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Different use cases, for you it is important, for some others not so much.
I have not had a bank account or credit card in ten years. Losing tap to pay would be less important than losing a pube hair to me.
Curious how you go about life without bank accounts and cards. Cash only? Or some other setup? Also curious about why you chose to do so.
If you don't mind sharing, of course.
Cash only. I need very little in life other than food and clothing. I changed countries, which makes it easier, though paying by phone is very much becoming a thing.
I have no interest in being known for anything, my life is simple but not easy. The more I am off the radar the less I have to interact with others. That works better for me than being in the midst of things. Different use cases.
ETA : I donate to FOSS projects I use, for that I find someone (never the same person twice) and pay them to donate to the developer. That is about my only outside expense.
Thanks for the reply.
Always interesting to hear about different ways of doing things.
Ok Chairmaker but we can't all be on Sma's bankroll.
It's an interesting thought isn't it? In a post scarcity Culture would privacy be important?
Hard to say. Privacy of mind seems most important. The rest... Seems immaterial?
The minds control all, after all.