Virtual World.
How to maintain privacy in cyberspace.
Since the invention of the personal computer in 1970, the same technology that has introduced vast improvements to modern society has also been used to track users.¹
The virtual world is where most people are first taught to surrender every detail of their existence for the sake of convenience. Your name, age, location, employer, relationships, purchasing habits, interests, political views, and physical address are all treated as fair game by platforms that believe any data they can collect is data they are entitled to keep.
If someone wanted to build a picture of your life 30 years ago, they had to actually work for it. Now they can get halfway there by reading your social media profiles, buying broker data, and correlating the same email address across every platform you've ever signed up for.
This section is focused on dealing with that reality. Delete the unnecessary, compartmentalize what remains, and stop giving random companies clean, structured access to your identity just because they slapped a login button on a glossy web page.
Start with Social Media., Mail., and People Search..
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