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rangerdan

Wear a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, face mask and put a pebble in your shoe.

Use RFID blocking wallets.

Pay with cash where feasible.

Don't run google/ios services on your phone.

Freeze your credit reports and check them annually.

Stop visiting social media.

Disable ontrac/onstar crap in your legally owned cars.

Use Tor Browser.

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Privacy is not difficult, it just takes a bit of effort and discipline.

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"So, for me, it all comes down to state power against the peoples' ability to meaningfully oppose that power. And I'm sitting there, uh, every day getting paid to design methods to amplify that state power. And I'm realizing that if, you know, the policy switches that are the only things that restrain these states, were changed, there... you couldn't meaningfully oppose these. I mean you would have to be the most incredibly sophisticated, technical actor in existence. I mean, I'm not sure there's anybody, no matter how gifted you are, who could oppose all of the offices and all the bright people, even all the mediocre people out there with all of their tools and all their capabilities."

- Edward Snowden

Difficult: something that takes effort and discipline to do successfully.

Sounds to me like privacy is difficult.

Yeah, fair point...

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