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Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy These Days? Or Do You?

Posted by Unknown on from the nsa-and-cia-just-know-i'm-a-square dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NSA snoops traffic and has backdoors in encryption algorithms. Law enforcement agencies are operating surveillance drones domestically (not to mention traffic cameras and satellites). Commercial entities like Google, Facebook and Amazon have vast data on your internet behavior. The average Joe has sophisticated video-shooting and sharing technology in his pocket, meaning your image can be spread anywhere anytime. Your private health, financial, etc. data is protected by under-funded IT organizations which are not under your control. Is privacy even a valid consideration anymore, or is it simply obsolete? If you think you can maintain your privacy, how do you go about it?"

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  1. one method by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    not truthfully responding to such questions

    1. Re:one method by dhasenan · · Score: 5, Funny

      When I have a phone conversation, I do it by recording MP3s, putting them in encrypted form on microSD cards, and leaving them at dead drops.

  2. Don't use it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing you do electronically is anonymous. I don't use the Internet, I don't make phone calls, and I don't do email. Ever. At all. I only pay cash (coins actually, because bills have serial numbers that can be tracked). And I certainly would never, ever, post anything online.

    1. Re:Don't use it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's exactly why I only touch pennies with my private parts - they may have my DNA but they're not going to like where it came from.

  3. Simple by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I send everything to Snowden for safe-keeping.

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    Table-ized A.I.
  4. Simple. by MouseTheLuckyDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't have anything the NSA is interested in.
    The people that are likely to try to gain from violating my privacy are likely to spend 10 times more then they gain.

  5. Re:Unplug. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you plan on never going to the doctor. Never getting a job. No girlfriend. Never walking down a city street. Never owning a car. Never renting or owning a place to live. Oh, and groceries...

    Slashdotters don't do any of these things. Especially not the job or the girlfriend or leaving the basement.