Privacy Posts
Analysis
Why Deepfakes Are Harder to Stop Than We Admit
August 26, 2025
I mapped dozens of proposed solutions to deepfakes. The result was sobering:No silver bullets. Only tradeoffs. The conversation around deepfakes…
Analysis
Anonymous Email Services
August 26, 2025
Tactical Privacy: Email Address Strategy The longer you hold onto an email address, the more data brokers can cluster around…
Anonymous Payments
Prepaid Gift Card Chart for Private Payments
August 26, 2025
When you want to make online payments without leaving a clear personal trail, prepaid cards can be powerful tools. But…
Personal Protection
Sextortion Spam
August 26, 2025
Sextortion scams aren’t new, but they remain one of the most effective forms of cyber-enabled fraud. These scams don’t rely…
Comparison Guide
Secure Messaging in 2025: What You Need to Know
August 26, 2025
Secure Messaging in 2025: What You Need to Know Messaging isn’t just conversation. It’s exposure. The app you use determines…
Password Managers
Best Password Managers
August 26, 2025
Your passwords are the keys to your digital life. If they’re weak, reused, or poorly managed, attackers don’t need to…
Communication Privacy
5 Privacy Moves to Block Spies, Trackers & Data Brokers
August 26, 2025
Stalkers, advertisers, and hostile actors are digging for your data every day. Your phone is revealing your location. Your credit…
Credible Threats
Signals in Plain Sight (Covert Communication Channels)
August 25, 2025
At ObscureIQ, we’re rolling out ThreatWatch. It’s our new active threat monitoring service. Looking for threats forces us to think…
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Be Location Safe
August 20, 2025
Everyone wants your location—because it’s valuable.Don’t let companies harvest and sell your geolocation data. They profit while you take all…
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7 Steps to Reduce Your Digital Dust by 90%
August 20, 2025
You can reduce the data you leak online with a few clear, simple steps. Simple Steps. Big Rewards. The internet…
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The Sextortion Scammers’ Process
August 20, 2025
How scammers trick you into thinking they know something revealing… Don’t be fooled! They don’t actually know you, and they…
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Secure Private URL Reg
August 20, 2025
Secure Private URL Registration: Protect Your Identity Online Registering a domain without protecting your personal information is risky. Domain registrars…
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Find Your Mobile Ad ID
August 20, 2025
Your Mobile Advertising ID (MAID) is the key to deleting your location history. You are being tracked. Advertisers and data…
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Remove Residential Data
August 20, 2025
Don’t let everyone see pictures of your home! Real estate sites often show images that reveal far more than you…
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Safe Surf Risky Content
August 20, 2025
Everyone wants to track you and hack you. Don’t surf without protection! Whether you’re an investigator, law enforcement officer, or…
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Maximize Facebook Privacy
August 20, 2025
Everyone wants your location—because it’s valuable. Lock it down! Your privacy on Facebook matters. Whether you’re concerned about who can…
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How to Remove Your Home from Maps
August 20, 2025
Mapping software is showing your home to everyone—even bad actors. Be Safe! If images of your home appear on mapping…
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Credit Headers: The Unseen Data Firehose
August 20, 2025
Your personal data isn’t just sitting in a credit bureau vault. It’s being actively spread across the internet through a…
Threats & Exploits
Are Human Therapists Causing Suicides? No. (And perhaps AI therapists are not either.)
August 20, 2025
About 12,000 people die by suicide each year while actively in therapy with a licensed professional. [Psych Today] Nobody blames…
ALPR
Your License Plate Is a Beacon: How Everyday Driving Becomes a Surveillance Trail
August 17, 2025
Narrative Summary: Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems have created a shadow network of tracking that spans across cities, highways,…
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Your License Plate is Talking… Who’s Listening?
August 17, 2025
Your plates used to talk to the DMV and the occasional traffic cop. In 2025? They’re snitching to data brokers,…
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A Day in the Life of Your License Plate
August 17, 2025
How ALPR Systems Quietly Track You Everywhere Your License plate is talking more than a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving. Automatic…
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Trust + LLC Layering: The Real Estate Ownership Strategy That Actually Works
August 17, 2025
By Greg Manwelyan, for readers who know that real privacy starts where the public record ends Owning real estate is…
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The Best State for Your Real Estate LLC Isn’t Where You Think It Is
August 17, 2025
By Greg Manwelyan, written for privacy-first operators who know that real estate ownership doesn’t have to mean public exposure Let’s…
Financial Privacy
Buy Property in a Trust. Or Regret It Later: A Tactical Guide to Real Estate Ownership That Actually Protects You
August 17, 2025
Buy Property in a Trust. Or Regret It Later: A Tactical Guide to Real Estate Ownership That Actually Protects You…
Comparison Guide
Password Managers: Privacy, Anonymity, and Security
July 24, 2025
🔹Top Picks at a Glance From our latest analysis, here’s how some of the most popular password managers performed: Bitwarden…
Anonymous Phones
Anonymous Phones in 2025: Getting Out of the Apple and Google Trap
July 23, 2025
When it comes to reducing your digital exposure, few steps are as impactful as getting out of a stock phone.…
Data Brokers
How Data Brokers Destroyed Functional Privacy
July 22, 2025
There was a time, not so long ago, when we had something called functional privacy. Not perfect privacy. Not encryption.…
Credit
What Is Credit Monitoring? And Do I Want It? (Answer: Not Really)
July 14, 2025
Every time there’s a major data breach, companies scramble to offer “free” credit monitoring. It sounds like a responsible move.…
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What Is GREG Burn-In? (And How to Avoid It)
March 14, 2022
Every time there’s a major data breach, companies scramble to offer “free” credit monitoring. It sounds like a responsible move.…