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Well it couldn't hurt. It depends more on what specific threats you are worried about though. It's not too tough to drastically limit the amount of information

by ufmace 7y ago

Well it couldn't hurt. It depends more on what specific threats you are worried about though. It's not too tough to drastically limit the amount of information that any non-privileged people online can find about you. Just make sure all accounts are either deleted, or locked so that only approved people can see any info. Post few to no pictures, and no job info. If you really want an account on some service, start a new one with a fake name that you haven't used anywhere else before. Don't link any accounts to any other accounts on other services. Highly privileged people are a different matter. Meaning police/government investigators and any internal investigators or algorithms at any of the big tech companies. It's much harder to really be private from them. Doing all of the above, plus being super-vigilant about only accessing new accounts from VPN or Tor, and never doing anything that could associate it with your old account. May require separate hardware to have a decent shot.

xupybd 7y ago
My specific worry is that given a little information about me a criminal could access enough information to do me harm. We live in a time where decades old tweets get celebrities in trouble. Who knows what opinions I hold now will be considered taboo in 20 years time? I get regular calls from scammers trying to tell me to invest in online trading or that my internet connection has been compromised. As poor parts of the world come online it's only natural they would find ways to extract money from the wealthier parts. There is often little ability and incentive for these countries to police such activities. As it stands my details are out there an public and there are more and more ways people are finding to abuse this information. Google knows every website I've visited. Facebook knows every ex I've looked up in a moment of weakness. All of this is on stored and could be used against me. Once the minor details of our pasts were forgotten, this is no longer the case and as I'm getting older I feel less and less comfortable about this. I've made mistakes, said things I'm not proud of, I'd like to avoid being tied to my online past. With the growing ability of facial recognition system I fear any online service that knows my face will easily be tied to me in real life. All a malicious actors will need is a camera and a system to scrap public facing systems for my data.

by ufmace 7y ago

xupybd 7y ago

My specific worry is that given a little information about me a criminal could access enough information to do me harm. We live in a time where decades old tweets get celebrities in trouble. Who knows what opinions I hold now will be considered taboo in 20 years time? I get regular calls from scammers trying to tell me to invest in online trading or that my internet connection has been compromised. As poor parts of the world come online it's only natural they would find ways to extract money from the wealthier parts. There is often little ability and incentive for these countries to police such activities. As it stands my details are out there an public and there are more and more ways people are finding to abuse this information. Google knows every website I've visited. Facebook knows every ex I've looked up in a moment of weakness. All of this is on stored and could be used against me. Once the minor details of our pasts were forgotten, this is no longer the case and as I'm getting older I feel less and less comfortable about this. I've made mistakes, said things I'm not proud of, I'd like to avoid being tied to my online past. With the growing ability of facial recognition system I fear any online service that knows my face will easily be tied to me in real life. All a malicious actors will need is a camera and a system to scrap public facing systems for my data.