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?"

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Re:When it's out of your control

[StripedCow]

...you can't. That's what "out of your control" means.

Well actually, you can. The trick is to inject noise into the system, such that Google/Facebook's statistical classifiers and the such stop working.
For example, take pictures of yourself, and tag them using a stranger's name.
Or, take random pictures not featuring yourself, and tag them using your own name.
Perform fake google searches every day (search for stuff that you have no interest in whatsoever).

And so forth.

In fact, I see a business model here.