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• Insurance
− Life
− Vehicular
− Health
− Lawsuit umbrella
• Loyalty cards (department stores and so forth)
• Service providers
• Search engines
• Social networking
• Work records at various companies and institutions
We suggest that it is extremely dicult to disappear. e highest lever-
age and simple act is to take a PO box in the name of a DBA or LLC where
the ownership is not obvious. e level of “protection” this aords from
identity thieves is dicult to quantify.
When using the Internet, anonymity is not particularly easy either.
Some browsers support a privacy mode that provides minimal protec-
tion by not leaving large digital footprints. Another alternative is so-
ware known as Tor,
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which uses a circuitous path th