Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control?

An anonymous reader writes "A week ago, Slashdot was asked, "How do you protect your privacy?" The question named many different ways privacy is difficult to secure these days, but almost all of the answers focused on encrypting internet traffic. But what can you do about your image being captured by friends and strangers' cameras (not to mention drones, police cameras, security cameras, etc.)? How about when your personal data is stored by banks and healthcare companies and their IT department sucks? Heck; off-the-shelf tech can see you through your walls. Airport security sniffs your skin. There are countless other ways info on you can be collected that has nothing to do with your internet hygiene. Forget the NSA; how do you protect your privacy from all these others? Can you?"

Comments

By being as boring as possible

[Anonymous Coward]

It worked keeping away a lot of people.

Re:When it's out of your control

[slartibartfastatp]

Although one can always wear a tinfoil hat.

Change your name

[Anonymous Coward]

Change your name to John or Jane Smith. If someone tries to search for your info, they will be literally flooded with false positives. Sometimes I wish I had a common name like that.

Tinfoil Hats

[fred911]

And for the TSA, lead condoms with scrotum wings.