It's None of Your Business: A Complete Guide to Protecting Your Privacy, Identity, & Assets - Softcover

Sontag, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967435439 ISBN 13: 9780967435435

Publisher: P M I Enterprises, 2001

Synopsis

The new 4th edition of It's None of Your Business is truly the best yet. Written for the average person who wants to maintain their privacy and freedoms, this book is packed with practical tips and strategies for keeping all your records, personal information, and private affairs really private. New sections include what say to authorities, how to deal with dating, hiding valuables, Internet threats and how to thwart them, encrypting your files, and the latest on off-shore tax havens. This is a book for everyone wanting to take control over their life, but without living like a criminal or moving to a third world country. Single people, women, the elderly, business men and women, or those who use the Internet especially need to have this newest 4th edition of It's None of Your Business.

About this title

About the Author

Larry Sontag, former secondary math and science teacher turned computer programmer and college instructor now provides privacy consulting and services to the public. He resides in the Pacific Northwest, still does computer consulting and programming while keeping up on the privacy arena and lecturing to large and small audiences in person and on radio and TV.

From the Inside Flap

Strangers now know more about you than you do. With Twenty First Century technology you leave an electronic trail wherever you go. Your personal information is stored, analyzed and shared with people who can and do use it for profit. Your very identity is threatened aas today's high-tech computers allow thieves to virtually steal your name, your credit, your medical history and your good reputation.

You CAN and MUST protect yourself! Current laws protecting privacy are completely inadequate. Government has a vested interest in reducing, not increasing our rights to privacy protection! This book contains up-to-date information on how you can fight back by: Taking yourself off mailing lists and other databases Keeping your financial transactions completely private Preventing big business and bureaucrats from gathering more data about you. Surfing the internet anonymously Learning how to communicate, travel, and receive medical care privately Protecting your identity, your credit and your physical safety by small changes in your daily routines and behaviors.

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You are literally under a magnifying glass, from the time you get up in the morning, to the moment you go to bed at night. It is happening no matter what you do, where you go, or how you live. Your personal information is so valuable that an entire industry has grown up over the past few years that tracks it on computers from the day of your birth to the day you die. If you have a social security number or a social insurance number (in Canada), you are tracked, along with your every purchase, job, insurance policy, phone call, letter you write, and bill you pay. If you live in North America, you live in a veritable invisible prison of control. This control comes not from bars, walls, and locked doors, but from the threat of exposure of your behaviors and transactions to the general public or government agencies who may disapprove. The land of the free has turned into the land of the controlled. Guns and physical threats are really no longer needed, because economic control is much cleaner and more effective. No, I'm not some kind of conspiracy theory wacko who sees a threat behind every rock, I'm just an ordinary guy who has taken the time to research a problem so pervasive it affects nearly every person on the continent, and in all the industrialized countries of the world. I will tell you how you are watched and tracked. You can decide for yourself if there is a threat. You can also decide what kind of life you want to live.

This book is really about freedom and the ability to live your life as you see fit. You don't have to be in a physical prison to be controlled. There are many ways to control a person, from threats, intimidation, keeping someone ignorant, controlling access to goods and services, limiting choices in healthcare, fear of embarrassment, and outright deception, among others. You have to make choices in your life and as a sovereign being, you have tremendous powers to make choices that will affect not only yourself, but many others. My goal is to help you understand your true capabilities and enable you to protect yourself, while making choices that will empower you to truly take back control over your life.

The rapid dissemination of information about your official identity, especially via computer records, has dramatically increased the chances of your life being turned completely upside down with the loss of any personal identification documents. A hundred years ago, a lost wallet would be an inconvenience, today it could be devastating. Along with your identifying papers and official documents, you give the finder or the thief the ability to literally become you in the eyes of the credit, medical, and legal world. Identity and credit theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in America today resulting in over $1 billion in losses annually.

With the proliferation of computer systems, the Internet, and the integration of medical, social, official, and financial records, we have all become slaves to a system that increasingly controls our every act. Legislation establishing a national ID will make this an even greater threat, allowing government or corporate bureaucrats and common thieves to literally dictate our very livelihoods should they get control of our official number.

This book is not just about privacy and keeping your PIN number secret. It's about your right of free travel, your right to contract, your right to accept or not accept benefits from the government, and your right to privacy in your medical records. It's about your right to freely conduct business with another human being as long as that transaction does not impinge on the rights of others. It's about your right to work for a living and contract with an employer for your services in exchange for anything of value, including money. Privacy in the context of freedom includes being able to interact with other people without someone recording your every act! It means that you can go about your business without worrying that you're breaking some obscure, paranoia inspired law. It means that you can freely travel about the country and indeed the world, without wondering if your every move is being traced and possibly used to concoct some criminal scenario. If you are concerned about!
your freedoms and constitutional rights, you are not alone. There are many organizations who are working actively to protect these rights, but you need to get involved and that starts with educating yourself. Just keep in mind that the more you standardize yourself and become a number, the easier it is for that number to be used against you.

Edition details

• Publisher: P M I Enterprises
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967435439
• ISBN 13: 9780967435435
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 283