7 simple steps to control your privacy:
—Quit Facebook
—Install an ad/tracker blocker
—Destroy your smartphone
—Paint your face before going outside
—Write opt-out letters to each of the 4,000 data brokers
—Avoid other humans (FB gets your data from them)
—Move to a remote forest
—Quit Facebook
—Install an ad/tracker blocker
—Destroy your smartphone
—Paint your face before going outside
—Write opt-out letters to each of the 4,000 data brokers
—Avoid other humans (FB gets your data from them)
—Move to a remote forest
This list was brought to you by the Council for Privacy as Individual Responsibility.
There’s actually a neat art project on camouflaging your face to fool face recognition systems deployed in public spaces: cvdazzle.com 
There really are thousands of data brokers in the US alone. We know of a handful, and the rest are secret. Maybe a data broker should sell a list of all the data brokers. newsweek.com/secretive-worl…
The Onion was way ahead of this issue, as usual. From 2009:
See below for more on why privacy-as-individual-responsibility isn’t adequate. Experts have been saying this for years, but it’s become clear from recent events like the Strava heatmap and Facebook/Cambridge Analytica. Let’s retire this way of thinking!
Agreed! That wasn't the intent at all, but rather that privacy is a shared societal value and will require collective action.
