Out of your precautions, the one that interests me the most is number 1, because it acknowledges that other people's attitude determines one's privacy: > 1. I'

Out of your precautions, the one that interests me the most is number 1, because it acknowledges that other people's attitude determines one's privacy: > 1. I've advised friends and my well-known contacts who have Gmail accounts that they will only get brief and or limited (and innocuous) data sans personal data and important information from me in replies to their Gmail account emails—and that this is specifically because they're using spyware Gmail! Offline, eyeball-to-eyeball, I amplify these concerns by strongly advising them that whenever they (a) send me emails, or (b) forward my emails and other details to other Gmail accounts, etc., and (c) whenever they even mention me in Gmail messages, either to me or to others, then they are violating my privacy and to do so only as a last resort. Right, I actively embarrass them for being stupid enough to let Google 'rape' them of their personal information (remember, we're in a war with Big Tech for our personal data so we can't be too nice). What kind of reactions did you get? Do you allow the sime kind of information you post on public fora? Seeing how trusting well-meaning people are, I'm wary of giving them any kind of sensitive information in digital form. It will inadvertently end up on Facebook, auto-backed up by Google or Apple, or in a private Dropbox share, outside of my control. When it comes to things you might have missed, I've recently learned that US-based companies in areas which one would expect sensitive, are extremely promiscuous with personal data. The shocking example was Google plugging into payment processors streams (credit cards).