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Note to anyone that cares: Make your data as stale as possible: you can't change your address easily, sure. But you can recycle phone numbers (once a year, mini
by aboringusername 6y ago
Note to anyone that cares: Make your data as stale as possible: you can't change your address easily, sure. But you can recycle phone numbers (once a year, minimum). Change your credit/debit cards yearly (say to your bank you 'lost' it).
When ordering online, always, always, always use a fake number, it's not required. Always use a fake name where possible. Sure, you need to provide that as a 'billing' address, but in some cases it stops other third parties getting that info (on eBay you can type a random name to ship to, I've had fun with this :) ).
But lastly, LOL. Giving your data to facebook this is what you deserve, and for society accepting facebook as a standard part of life.
When do we protest to delete the website?
- avh02 6y ago> When ordering online, always, always, always use a fake number, it's not required Until something's gone wrong in the process and they need to call you to clarify/fix it. (happens regularly to me due to address suffixes not propagating correctly through crappy systems)
- ricardobayes 6y agoThis is region dependent. In spanish speaking countries they pretty much never use email. Everyone - including the courier will just call you.
- shmoogy 6y ago> When ordering online, always, always, always use a fake number, it's not required Don't do this if you order anything that doesn't ship small parcel. The freight company may need to contact you and it will complicate matters and delay your final delivery.
- bshep 6y agoI do something similar when a site asks for my birthday, i used to pick a random date, but sonce its sometimes used to reset password or asks u to confirm i just use the first of january of the year i was born so i can make sure i remember what i put.
- wasmitnetzen 6y agoDoesn't that kinda negate the goal of using a fake birth date? After all, they don't really care whether you give your real birth date, it's enough that it is the same on that other website they get your personal information from to correlate.
- KMnO4 6y agoI don’t care if someone leaks my fake DOB in a Dropbox hack and then tries to reset my Netflix password. Websites that use my real DOB are usually linked to my identity, so I’m much more concerned with protecting them from, eg social engineering attacks [0]. [0]: https://gizmodo.com/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-1511578384 https://gizmodo.com/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-15...
- bshep 6y agoYes this is my thought as well.
- vharuck 6y agoWhen birthdate is tied to an account, I pick a random one and store it alongside the username and password in KeePass. Same as the "security questions"; I make up and store nonsensical answers. E.g. "Q: What was your mother's maiden name?" "A: Blueberry pie."
- wussboy 6y agoI do the same thing but use KeePass’ password generator to create the answers. My mother’s maiden name will be something like “diejdJyt7ejHsud”
- hiq 6y agoI do that as well, but I dread the moment I'll have to call support through no fault of my own and they'll ask me for the answers to some of these questions.
- hnrodey 6y ago>Change your credit/debit cards yearly (say to your bank you 'lost' it). Huge shoutout to/for privacy.com. Been using for over a year now and it's been a fantastic service.
- baby 6y agoI change my phone number every year and I get spam calls all the time.