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Identity Theft Protection in Five Important Tips

Identity theft can and does literally happen everywhere and anywhere and it happens so often that it would almost seem ridiculous. All you have to do is turn...

Restraining Orders Protect You and Your Privacy

In Cape Fear, Robert Mitchum (or Robert DeNiro, depending on which Robert you prefer) are just creepy enough to be threatening, but not enough to be convicte...

Top 5 Ways to Keep Your Home Address Private

ISIS has released the home address of US military personnel, soliciting attacks at their homes. Regardless of one's views on war, the idea that someone can d...

3 Takeaways from Kaspersky Reports

Kaspersky has made credible reports that virtually all computers have been compromised with malicious code, giving the NSA secret access to any computer they...

Reclaim Your Privacy

Enjoy your copy of Reclaim Your Privacy which was created for Liberty.me.

NSA Proof Mobile Phone Call Encryption

The NSA records cell phone calls, saves them and searches them. According to Glenn Greenwald, the NSA can collect over 1 billion phone calls per day. The LA...

Tin Foil Hat for Your Phone

Most of us carry surveillance devices with us at all times. The East German Stasi could not have dreamed of a better system of surveillance than cell phones....

Is Privacy Attainable?

Is Privacy attainable? Or is permanent, ubiquitous surveillance a foregone conclusion? Privacy is attainable, and the Snowden leaks contain the key to keep...

Keep the NSA Out of Your Email - Avoid Unwarranted NSA Surveillance

The NSA can read your emails, listen to your phone calls, see all of your purchases, and look at your library records without a warrant. They so extensively...

Keep the NSA Out of Your Internet - Avoid Unwarranted NSA Surveillance

The NSA can read your emails, listen to your phone calls, see all of your purchases, and look at your library records without a warrant. They so extensively...

Roger Ver Endorses Trace Mayer for Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat

On September 16-23rd the Bitcoin Foundation will be holding the final elections for two seats on the board of directors for the Industry and Individual seats.

Felix Moreno de la Cova Endorses Trace Mayer for Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat

On September 16-23rd the Bitcoin Foundation will be holding the final elections for two seats on the board of directors for the Industry and Individual seats.

Can You Sue the NSA?

Lawsuits are blunt instruments for protecting rights, but sometimes they are the tool you need. Lawsuits over the NSA spying programs have multiplied over th...

Surveillance Is for Perverts – Stop PRISM Surveillance

It is hard to argue that the American surveillance state is much different from the surveillance state of communist East Germany, the Soviet Union, or any ot...

Increase the Cost to Those Spying on You with These Five Free Tips

They copied and stored all your emails, phone calls and texts? You had no idea. They jacked your device's memory and bandwidth to report back with your pers...

Seven Steps to Transfer Domains to Namecheap from Godaddy with Bitcoins

GoDaddy spams you with worthless offers on checkout. And do not even offer a discount. Then they support SOPA and PIPA to infringe on our Internet freedom. T...

How to Make a Business Vanish - Keeping Funds in Banks or Bitcoin

What happens when a business cannot make payroll? Poof, the business vanishes! That is what happens.

What You Need to Know About Big Data and the Government

Digital privacy issues are particularly important in light of government's use of big data. There is a great need for privacy and data protection. But many o...

Why Bitcoin Acceptance Should Be a Litmus Test of Liberty Proponents

Whether an individual, merchant or organization is a true proponent of liberty should largely be measured by whether they accept bitcoins for payment or dona...

Political Privacy in the 21st Century

Truly, the world of civil liberties is in commotion but the power of technology is in forward motion like never before. Political privacy in the 21st century...

Privacy Rights for Civilians in the Information Age

The Internet is the great equalizer of mankind.

Proactive Domestic Security Measures You Can Take to Control Privacy

You can create data disruption through the layers of information.

Public Anonymity and the Decline of the Peace Officer

Public anonymity is extremely important for personal safety, protection from identity theft and as a preventative measure from being targeted by nefarious cr...

Experiencing the Police State Security

The police state is attempting to engulf everything in its path.

The Need for Privacy and Data Protection

Do you sometimes feel that there is a need for privacy and data protection? Well its time you take a closer look at the scenario of depleting privacy to form...

Company Privacy Policies and Affiliate Weasel Clauses

Company privacy policies are an inherent aspect of any company related documents. Whenever you are making purchases or carrying out dealings then privacy pol...

Why to Beware of Privacy Intrusions Posed by Cell Phone Cameras

The issue of camera cell phone privacy is extremely important in today's age and far-reaching. Many cell phone cameras by default and automatically reveal tr...

How to Use Laws Protecting Political Privacy

Political privacy has always been a concern in civilized countries. Despite the massive fraud that modern governments are voters should feel that they have t...

How Much Privacy of Medical Records Do You Have

Many people do not like the idea of their private medical records being exposed for all to see - particularly when it relates to their sexual health. Because...

How to Protect Your Physical Privacy - Protecting Privacy Offline

We should be protecting privacy offline anywhere we go whether be it a bank, hospital, store or a restaurant. With privacy laws we should be protected from u...

Eight Privacy Tips to Prevent Identity Theft

With the alarming rise of the crime rate it is no surprise that over 30,000 identities are being stolen every day. These days identity theft is one of the mo...

Your Unalienable Rights to Privacy and How to Protect Them

In the United States citizens are presumed to have unalienable rights which are supposed to be protected by laws and these civil liberties and the right to p...

Take Control of Your Privacy in the Digital Age

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound cure. People around the world are victimized every day after falling into some identity theft traps. The steep ...

How to Protect Your Internet Privacy and Prevent Identity Theft

When most people browse the Internet they are not aware of the risks involved. You may not be aware of the kind of information you are leaving behind when yo...

How to Protect Your Privacy Using Simple Financial Privacy Strategies

If you want to protect your privacy then you must use effective financial privacy strategies. Financial institutions are supposed to keep their customers' in...

How to Obtain Financial Privacy Through Using BitCoin

Financial Privacy Before we start understanding about Bitcoin it is very important to understand the meaning of how to obtain financial privacy. Financial pr...

How to Prevent Identity Theft and What to Do If It Happens

The number of identity theft cases is growing and it is more important than ever to prevent identity theft using effective privacy tips and stealth privacy t...

10 Privacy Tips for Protecting Your Identity and Avoiding Identity Theft

Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world. An estimated 30,000 identities are stolen each day! You don’t have to be one of those 30,00...

7 Effective Privacy Techniques for Reducing Risk of Identity Theft

Identity theft occurs more often than anybody would like to admit and effective privacy techniques could prevent much of the damage. Everyone has a mentality...

Fun with a Decoy Drive

I am not talking about collecting hunting decoys for needy hunters.  I am talking about swapping out a sensitive laptop hard drive with a hard drive that has...

Cloud Security

Cloud file storage is a great way to get a little bit more privacy.  Separating your sensitive files from your physical location gives you flexibility and se...

Set Up Free Email Encryption in 15 Minutes

A lot of people think email encryption is an awesome idea. But very few of them ever do it. Emails travel around the internet in plain text. Anybody routin...

Stratfor Failed to Protect Their Customers by Not Accepting Bitcoin

Stratfor's website was hacked by Anonymous, customer details including names, addresses and, according to Reuters over 4,000 credit card numbers were copied ...

Taxing Baby Jesus

Wise men visited the young Jesus, bringing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. What if He wanted to sell those gifts later on to buy a donkey, feed the p...

Safely Sell or Donate Your Old Computer

Your old computer has more sensitive information than the diary of a 13 year old girl. I doubt you would sell or give away that kind of a diary, but it seems...

Is Privacy Dead?

Some people feel like it is useless to protect privacy. Privacy pessimists already feel the ubiquitous surveillance of almost every action they take. They ...

Stop Frivolous Lawsuits Before They Start

It is no secret that some attorneys will initiate litigation of a weak case hoping that the defendant will settle instead of risking a trial. This is a very ...

5 Steps to Anonymous Online Speech

5th of November Celebration

Remember, remember the 5th of November...!!! Check out the 5th of November special event from How To Vanish. There may be fireworks!

Learn How to Create an Anonymous Website or Blog

Learn how to create an anonymous website or blog so you are empowered with freedom of speech. Free speech is threatened when corrupt forces can pressure the ...

Occupy Wall Street Protester Privacy

Why "Occupy Wall Street" Protesters Need to Worry About Their Privacy It isn't hard to see why the Occupy Wall Street movement got started. Outrage over mas...

Patient Privacy Rights and Private Hospitals

Secret Weapon to Protect Medical Privacy Medical information is among the most private personal information. New healthcare laws in the US essentially req...

Internet Privacy Guard: Fraud Edition

Protect Yourself From Online Fraud With This Internet Privacy Guard Fraud = Bad. Privacy is about protecting information and fraud is about misusing inform...

Living Trusts Protect Financial Privacy

We Are All Going to Die!...Someday When we die the court system will take control of our financial lives and make one of the most private aspects of our liv...

Facebook and Fake Names

What What Happens If You Use a Fake Name on Google+ or Facebook? People love Facebook. Social networking is just a part of what humans do, so the fact that ...

Ignore the Police!

For the past few months, police departments have been using a new iris scanning device to identify people they encounter. Many more police departments will b...

Is GoldMoney a Gold-Backed Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is new. There has never been anything like it before. It is also risky. A lot of things need to happen for it to be successful in the long term. But...

Tim Ferris Is Californias Bitch

A few years ago I ran into Tim Ferris after his speech at a WordCamp in San Francisco. I even told him about my new blog, How To Vanish, and he said the name...

3 Simple Internet Privacy Tips (And 1 Super Secret Ninja Move)

Surfing the internet usually leaves a huge data trail behind. Private browsing helps cover digital tracks. Web Browsers Track Your Internet Movements ...

Information Leakage from Cell Phone Apps

Mobile phone apps can collect a lot of private, personal information and share it with others. Most people don't even know this information leakage is happen...

Cell Phone Security

Cell phones are like drivers licenses. It's really hard to function in the modern world without one, but they reveal a lot of information about you that you ...

Use RedPhone to Encrypt Cell Phone Calls

"Hey, man, listen very carefully, man. Don't answer the phone, man. You got that? Don't answer the phone, even if its me calling, man, don't answer it, be...

Police Corruption Out of Control: Threatens Personal Information

The San Diego Police Department has finally done it! They get their shot at having the highest incarceration rate in the world. But not among the residents o...

Foreign Drivers License Protects Families

Your home address is one of the most sensitive pieces of information you have. You don't want uninvited visitors bothering you and your family at home. Even ...

Can You Be Prosecuted for Using Gold or Silver? - Liberty Dollar Part III

The Liberty Dollar case has had a huge impact on the world of gold and silver trading, investing, ownership and use. I covered a lot of ground in Part I and ...

How Independent Contractors Make More Money for Everyone

Money is one of the biggest ways that we lose privacy. We must report our income and where it comes from for tax purposes. Our banking records are monitored ...

Police Search Cell Phones on Massive Scale

Cell phones contain more private information about you and your activities than just about anything else. They keep track of where you are at all times, ever...

Protect Passwords with KeePass

In my previous article, I talked about the first step to digital security: good passwords. Once you have a system, the easy part is coming up with secure pa...

Liberty Dollar II - Did Prosecutor Anne Tompkins Violate Ethics Rules?

Anne Tompkns' Liberty Dollar saga continues. Since the conviction of Bernard Von NotHaus for his involvement, there has been significant discussion about tha...

Soul Surfer Interview with Bethany Hamilton and David Tice

Last Wednesday I attended the Los Angeles Premier for the movie Soul Surfer. I was invited by my friend David Tice, founder of the Prudent Bear Fund, and lea...

Three Steps on How to Get Out of a Subpoena

Three Steps to Handle a Subpoena... And How to Protect Your Privacy From One Learning how to get out of a subpoena is very important because the subpoena i...

Secrets of Independent Contractors

Its finally here! Secrets of Independent Contractors is available now!

Liberty Dollar Trial and Coin Value

What Liberty Dollar Should Have Learned From the Godfather Don Corleone doesn't ask a second favor once he's been refused the first. Instead, he will make y...

Address Lookup Versus Your Private Address

In one corner we have the vast address lookup databases, pulling in personal information from public records and the entire internet. In the other corner is ...

How to Keep Phone Number Private - Block Caller ID

Learn how to keep phone number private and block caller ID with these simple tips. Many people want to keep their personal information from being public info...

Keep Your Assets Hidden in Plain Sight

Sorry David Copperfield. No matter how good a magician you are, there are some assets that you can't make vanish, and it has nothing to do with genetics. I'm...

My Privacy Library Part II

People always ask about the privacy books I read and recommend. I have several books and many are very good. They can be very helpful companions to How To Va...

Free Privacy Guide

The Free Privacy Guide will help you take control of your privacy. There are many different reasons someone may desire to take control of their privacy. From...

Remove Personal Information from the Internet

How does one remove personal information from Internet websites? Tattoo ink and internet ink are very similar. A lot of people are getting tattoos and putti...

Turn Smartphones Into Top Secret Spy Tools

International spy thrillers always feature some really cool top secret spy tools. But you don't have to be Angelina Jolie or Daniel Craig to have a spy tool ...

My Privacy Library

People sometimes ask me what privacy books I recommend, other than How To Vanish, or what privacy books I read. There is a lot of good information out there...

Best Way to Avoid Springing a Wikileak

I have seen some very good disclosures on Wikileaks. The crown jewel is the footage of the helicopter attack on several civilians and journalists. In particu...

BitCoin - The Best Financial Privacy Is Here...Probably

Financial privacy is a fundamental right which the law does little to protect. In fact, the laws of any country with a central bank and strong bank regulatio...

The Three Ways to Best Hide Valuables at Home

Learn how to hide valuables at home with these three easy steps. We all have important documents that we need to keep track of. Lots of us have some things t...

How to Make Anonymous Comments on a Website

Learning how to make anonymous comments on a website is extremely important to preserving our fundamental human rights and promoting the public good. Anonymo...

2010 a Year in Review - 2011 a Year in Advance

We hope HowToVanish has proven to be a very useful and helpful resource in protecting your privacy.

How to Boycott TSA

How far would you go to avoid being sexually assaulted or having to dance naked in front of strangers? Boycotts have proven to be very effective at crippling...

Privacy Equation

There are millions of things that can be done to protect privacy. Some are better than others. For better privacy, it helps to understand the big picture. Li...

Do You Need to Profitably Sue a TSA Agent?

As an attorney, I help people legally vanish parts of their life from public view. Of all the things you want to vanish from public view, the top on your lis...

How to Survive in Captivity

I have a good friend who is a former special forces soldier. We sat down to lunch a few days ago and he told me about a lot of the training that they go thro...

3 Better Privacy Secrets Banks Don't Want You to Know

Tighter credit and vast consumer databases has made it more profitable for banks to spy on you, especially if they are giving you credit. Better privacy is b...

New Mexico LLCs, Effective Asset Protection?

New Mexico is more than just the home of high desert and alien enthusiasts, its also the place to get better privacy.  New Mexico LLCs are one of the only pl...

Offshore Asset Protection Trusts and Better Privacy

An offshore asset protection trust can be an excellent tool to protect your privacy and assets. The US legal system is not always friendly to people who have...

How to Use Dropbox and Truecrypt to Securely Transfer Files Privately

Using the cloud to store and share files can greatly increase privacy and simultaneously remove the need for backups, border crossing issues and risk of thef...

Smartphone Pics: Stealing More Than Souls

Smartphones rule the world. They can do everything but wash my car, which I hear is a new feature of the iphone 5. But there are some things you need to keep...

Avoid Attorney Malpractice, Use Free Encryption Software

Attorneys are supposed to keep their clients secrets in strict confidence. It is probably attorney malpractice to disclose client secrets. And I am not just ...

New Privacy Software Section

Since you need a computer and the internet to get to HowToVanish.com, I thought I would give you some better privacy resources as far as privacy software to ...

Privacy Software Reviews - Digital Age Protection Tools

The best privacy software programs will protect you from hackers, spammers, phishers, identity thieves, corporate espionage, human rights violations, and opp...

Philadelphia Blog Tax Phollies

Is it always sunny in Philadelphia? Not for bloggers who recently have been told that they need a $300 Business Privilege License to operate their blog in P...

You Have the Right to Remain Silent: Fifth Amendment Explained

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases ar...

Alex Kozinski and Vehicle Tracking Devices

The Big Koz is at it again. Alex Kozinski is the chief judge of the Ninth Circuit, the biggest, baddest circuit around.   That circuit just got done granti...

Why an Asset Protection Attorney Loves New Mexico LLC Registration

Most people like stuff.   We all need some stuff and some stuff puts the fun in functional.  Houses, cars, boats, all of it is stuff, and everybody wants it....

Reverse SEO: 3 Ways to Hide in Plain Sight

Some people want to be seen. Others want to fly under the radar. Most of us want a little bit of both. The real issue that most people have in the fight b...

The Man of a Thousand Faces and Video Surveillance Systems

Modern surveillance is a lot more sophisticated than it used to be.  Law enforcement and private investigators are relying less and less on time consuming an...

Are Subscribers to This Website at Risk of Reverse Email Lookup?

I get a lot of good questions from readers of How To Vanish.  Sometimes those questions are very specific and sometimes they apply to a lot of people.  I rec...

Taking Raw Food Recipes Underground

Raw food recipes from the best recipe books call for using food products that have not been treated with chemicals, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, preser...

How to Plug a Wiki Leaks Wikileak

This week I wrote a guest post over at RunToGold on state income tax strategies that you might find interesting as well.

Pizza Delivery Fail

How To Order Pizza Anonymously

Intelligence Analysis: How Dangerous Is Citizen Dataveillance

I have been fascinated recently with the Washington Post intelligence analysis by William Arkin and Dana Priest. Both are well known journalists who have co...

Tax Domicile Report

There is a great new opportunity to save thousands of dollars every year on your state income taxes.

Make Your Home a Castle with Privacy Fencing Ideas

Privacy fencing ideas are about more than just decoration. Our home is our castle and most castles have walls. I don't think I need to invoke Robert Frost to...

Top 8 Ways to Avoid Celebrity Stalkers

You think your work is crazy? I have a good friend who is a psychologist and her work literally is crazy. She deals with people who are not only mentally d...

Don't Let Congress Tie Our Tubes!

Back in June of 2006, former Senator Ted Stevens famously called the internet “a series of tubes.” In his defense, he correctly stated that “[the internet...

Net Encryption: A Giant Leap for Google

But still a small step for mankind. Google recently began allowing users to use net encryption for basic Google searches. What does this mean, is it worth ...

Protecting Identity Theft Victims: Business Credit Card Holders

Identity theft is the new black for organized crime.  In the information age,  information is valuable.    Protecting identity theft victims can be difficult...

SAR Report Awareness: No More Transaction Reports

The Matrix grows larger and stronger with every SAR Report (Suspicious Activity Report), Currency Transaction Report, bank transaction and everything else in...

Strong Password Generator: Create Good Passwords

My friend Bill asked me to do a guest post on his website on something to do with technology security, since I'm his resident geek friend. Without hesitation...

To Stop Junk Mail, Stop Receiving Mail

I hated having to check the mail. When I did receive mail in my mailbox, it was mostly ads, bulk mail and mass mailers that were a complete waste of my time...

Secure WiFi Connections

Everyone does it.  You are traveling somewhere, or you just moved into a new area, or you are waiting at the coffee shop for your car to be fixed and you com...

Fool Facial Recognition Technology

Visual Recognition technology is becoming very powerful and easily has the capacity to perform facial recognition of an entire crowd. They can probably see ...

Trust Policy and Privacy

A trust for holding assets can have several benefits.  One of them is the protection of assets against creditors.  Another is the reduction of taxes.  Yet an...

Comedy to Die for: The Right to Be Unfunny

Privacy helps promote many of the freedoms that any good declaration of human rights would protect.  Press freedom, freedom of movement, and freedom of belie...

Keep Your Home Address to Yourself

The recent civil unrest in Kyrgyzstan is as violent and severe as any in recent months. Even though it is one of those countries I had hardly ever heard of,...

Don't Let the British Kidnap Your Children Too!

Did you know the British government kidnapped children?  On one level How To Vanish is just a fun way to legally hack the system and try and beat the house. ...

Colorado vs. Amazon: Who Wins in a Fight?

State of Colorado jobs are drying up as the heat of legislative pressure beats down on them, causing Colorado based streams of income to evaporate before the...

Easy Email Encryption

Hushmail provides a way to secure private emails which are otherwise notoriously insecure. You can think of email more like an e-postcard. Everywhere that ...

Transfer Big Files Securely

Secure file transfers used to be a very difficult process. It required getting a man in a suit to handcuff a briefcase to himself and carry it around conspic...

Executive Protection Training: 5 Easy Tips

Executive protection training is usually for elite security teams protecting high value individuals like executives, diplomats and pop stars.  Why would you ...

Family Protection Plan: A Personal Fourth Amendment

Ever wonder how a fish in a bowl feels? Some people are nice and give them a few plants, or even a castle where they can escape the constant prying eyes of ...

Cryptographic Protocols - How to Protect Your Wireless Network

We have all done it. If you own a laptop then you have probably done it more than once. We have all been without the Internet for a little while and then dec...

Bank Privacy Part Deux

In a previous post I layed out the foundation for the importance of bank privacy to a free society and the negative effect that certain laws have on bank p...

Safely Surf the Internet from a Public Wireless Network

These days many organizations offer free wireless network access for their customers in an effort to entice more people in the door. People love this and the...

Store Your Passwords in Encrypted Software

When you first start surfing the Internet you will come across many sites that ask for you to signup. They may ask you for a quick, two second signup that co...

Bank Privacy Part I

The ability to make and keep confidential relationships and have confidential communications is as vital to a free and independent people as the freedom of s...

How to Protect Your Computer

The Internet plays a large role in many people's everyday activities from searching for movies to buying books, checking bank accounts or credit cards, sendi...

Purpose

How To Vanish is intended to help you keep personal and financial secrets using the best practices in compliance with law.

Avoid Nosy Video Surveillance Cameras

Video surveillance cameras are everywhere. What would it be like to be Tom Cruise's character in Minority Report, walking through a public space unable to av...

Surveillance Society: Negative Aspects of Government Data Mining

Surveillance Society.  We already know that the government and private entities collect  a vast amount of personal data about our everyday activities.  Previ...

Cubans Using Anonymous Web Surfing

Taking some measures to pre-vanish can be very helpful to vanish at a later date.  This means having in place the tools that you need to vanish long before y...

Cell Phone Security: Mobile Phone Taps

Cell phone security is important to James Bond, Jason Bourne and every other Hollywood spy with the initials J.B. use some pretty impressive technology to ge...

Privacy Policies: A Misleading Misnomer

Have you ever read the privacy policy of some company that is collecting your personal information and felt secure, thinking that they protect your privacy. ...

Governmental Privacy Requirements: Information and Business

There are many federal laws, like the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, the FTC Act, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the pending senate bill 1490 as well as many lo...

Google, Microsoft, Wal-Mart Contribute to FTC Privacy Debate

Three corporate giants, Google, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, are a huge part of the current social, technological and legal environment making personal privacy in...

Vanishing in a Digital Age: Lessons from Evan Ratliff

Like many privacy minded individuals, I got a kick out of Wired Magazine editor Evan Ratliff's experiment to Vanish for 30 days. Even though it was a contest...

Facebook and Privacy: How Private Is Your Profile?

Recently a Canadian woman was cut off from her insurance benefits because her Facebook profile was used by her insurance company to gather evidence on her cl...

Living Off the Grid: Privacy Through Resource Independence

Some people might equate living off the grid with living similar to how Olympic Skiier Bode Miller did growing up, no electricity, no water, in a remote cabi...

War on Bank Privacy: The US Extends Its Influence

Much like the war on terror or the war on drugs, the US government is engaged in a War on Bank Privacy. Much like other wars of ideology, they cannot win in ...

The Expatriate - How Americans Can Renounce Citizenship

One of the most extreme acts that can be taken by an individual in attempt to secure more privacy is to renounce their citizenship of the United States and b...

Electronic Privacy: An Anonymous Card for Shopping Online

Maintaining electronic privacy requires more vigilance than with other areas of your privacy. I always recommend to use cash whenever possible in a transacti...

Should I Pay for Anonymous Web Surfing?

I have already written about proxy servers as a way to protect your privacy while searching the internet. My focus then was on free solutions to anonymous we...

Transactional Database and Data Mining

What Are Transactional Databases?

Know Your Enemy

Paying attention to issues of privacy is important. The threats to privacy take on three basic forms; threats by Government, Culture and Technology. Understa...

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Google Voice

Clint Eastwood's Character gained the upper hand on his adversaries in the movie The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, by telling them that a treasure was buried i...

The Sweet Sound of Cash - Financial Privacy Benefits

Protecting your personal privacy is a lifestyle design choice and can protect you from identity theft. Developing effective privacy hygiene habits and practi...

Modern Hawala

Hawala System for Hawala Transactions Via a Hawaladar

Are Your Phone Conversations Recorded?

Ooh baby, baby it's a wired world. Cat Stevens could easily rewrite his lyric for a new era. Recently a couple of politicians have been caught on tape saying...

How Do Drug Laws Affect Privacy?

A Growing Trend: Decriminalizing Drugs

Opt Out: Make Prequalified Offers for Credit Cards Stop

What is the easiest and most common magic trick in the book? It is making a coin vanish. It still delights children and is something that almost anyone can d...

The Truth Is Not Always the Right Answer

We all tell every six year old child that they should always tell the truth: no exceptions. Most of us believe the adage that the truth will set us free. Thi...

Avoid Avoid Pretexting and Protect Your Personal Privacy

Pretexting has nothing to do with your preparations before sending a text message to a friend, although sometimes I wish people would do that. Pretexting is ...

A Business Has No Business Knowing Personal Business

We don't all have to work for CONTROL to be working for an organization that listens in on phone calls. Many employees' phone calls, especially those who hav...

Genealogy and DNA Testing

The sequencing of individual DNA in order to know more about a person might arouse disturbing images associated with Brave New World or Gattaca. History has ...

This Message Will Self Destruct...

A really cool privacy tool has been developed by the computer science department of the University of Washington. Vanish is a system that allows users to sen...

Personal Information Protection

Practicing magicians do not reveal how they do their tricks. This is known as the magician's code. Every student of How To Vanish has a different appetite fo...

Learn How to Avoid Private Investigators - Followed by a Private Investigator

Learn how to avoid private investigators. Perhaps that is something Dory should have done.

Who Have You Been Talking To?

Just as the outside of all mail is photographed, the phone numbers that any one phone calls or receives and the websites visited by a computer are all subjec...

The State of the LLC

This may sound like I am referring to the State of the Union address traditionally given by the president each year. Rather than engage in a ceremonial activ...

LLCs as a Privacy Curtain

A large part of a magician's trickery is to distract and draw attention away from what is actually happening to make a rabbit or a coin vanish. A part of van...

Chained and Naked - Loans and Privacy Disclosure Policies

Loans are always a good way to expose your sensitive information to a host of strangers who are scrutinizing every aspect of your life. There are more likely...

Anonymous Web Surfing - Protect Your Internet Privacy

Learn how to protect your Internet privacy with anonymous web surfing. Remember, Hansel and Gretel wandered through the forest leaving tasty bread crumbs beh...

Careful with a Return Address

Problem

Fraudulent Identification Documents

Forged Travel Documents

How WHTI Affects You

Fundamental Right to Freedom of Movement

Identification and Credit Cards

You just finished shopping at a merchant, are at the register ready to pay with a credit card and a complete stranger asks to see your identification suppose...

Secure Your Mail

Recently an acquaintance of mind had a rather exasperating experience with her mail. She runs a small business, doing most of her business at home. Unfortuna...

Google's All Seeing Eye

Google Maps

Do You Bathe in Public

If you take a bath in public you can't complain that the neighbors are watching you. Every person has a different tolerance level for what they are willing t...