And some people wonder why Google love big.gov..........

Resistance is futile. Assimilate.

what is this "privacy" you speak of?

while this article claims to be a "complete guide" it's not one, but gives you a pretty good idea of where to start
https://gizmodo.com/the-complete-guide-to-dumping-google-1795248158


i am definitely dumping their Gmail, will look into an alternative phone (not going back to Apple either, no way)

This....if you have Internet, a cell phone, or ever do anything online you have no privacy. (This site alone is enough, i assure you)

You are fooling yourself if you think you do.

Big Brother is watching, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Get rid of any wireless phone you have, even dummy phones can be location-tracked by the cell tower in use.

don't use internet, everybody is tracking you. Including your internet provider.

walk streets with some sort of mask, avoid the face detection stuff around.

don't talk with people who has smartphones, those microphones are active and listening to what you say.

cut cable, they track your behavior and sell that data to advertisers

pay everything in cash, your credit card usage is semi-public for credit score tracking.

get an analog pre-2005 car, you don't want features like remote start or those evil GPS for emergency only.

remove license plates from the car (not legal, beware of police), cameras will pick up your location and whereabouts/routines. Oh, and don't crash it!! there will be a public record and you will have to deal with people using smartphones and email.

don't buy NFA items like suppressors and SBRs, nobody knows when the registry will be leaked.

do your IRS paperwork by yourself using paper forms and send it using old school postage. You don't want to hare anything with accountants that might be using email and smartphones around your data. Ah, and you don't want electronic receipts of you sending stuff to IRS. Nobody's business!!

use a fake name for any non-official thing. Your real name is nobody's business. It was decided by your parents and nobody else should get their nose on that.

don't use email.. wait, I already said don't use internet, moving on...

start your own business instead of a job. Employers will collect your data and talk about you over email or using third party apps like ADP that might leak stuff about you. Or talk about you with a smartphone around (they're listening)

Then you will achieve that privacy you think google is taking away from you.

P.D., you might want to move to a place where you can marry an Amish woman, it will be great, no in-paper marriage (the public office where that happens is full of smartphones and people using email), just you, your Amish wife and god.

...and don't use a Dr or dentist...

Wait, what?

Those apps can be erased. You want a lesson?

some ask about firearms in their intake forms (their insurance), and if your HIPPA info gets tied to your ccw, per i1639, there is another potential loss of privacy.

GHC/Kaiser has questionnaires they give out at every visit.
Do you take drugs, drink alcohol, any guns in the house, ever thought of harming people or suicide, any friends or relatives drink and drive, unprotected butt sex, etc, etc.
I just tell the nurse that me and the kids don't fill those out.
Pediatrician said he needed the info to do a risk assessment.
Told him him my son didn't feel comfortable with the questions on the form, and that the doctor needed to mind his own business.

Form says 'not to be filed with patient medical records' so who knows where those go. Probably send them to Google for $5 a form.

Oh, here they are. One for every age group.
https://wa.kaiserpermanente.org/html/pu ... /pre-visit

All have ask if there are any guns in the house, and if they are locked.
The physician comments is probably for "who has the guns and where do they keep them"

Gotcha. The only reason I ask about firearms is because I want to compare them or maybe take them in trade...

noted to self for next trip over there...