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How to minimize your digital footprint when you travel
Fox News ^ | 2/05/25 | Kurt Knutsson

Posted on 02/06/2025 2:45:27 AM PST by Libloather

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To: Openurmind

Worse, imho, is the more places that have your info because they “have to scan” your id, the more chances of your id info being hacked.
I was notified my personal info was exposed by some 3rd or 4th party medical service I never heard of nor dealt with. Not sure whih of my providers used them. Their solution was for me to freeze my credit info on the major credit score sites.

Well, hoopty-damn-do. I at least have a justification with a concrete example when I tell them no to a id scan...


21 posted on 02/06/2025 12:39:39 PM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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“Worse, imho, is the more places that have your info because they “have to scan” your id, the more chances of your id info being hacked.”

Absolutely, I can’t believe how folks spread it all around the country and then wonder how their info got out.

Only a very few like your bank needs your ID info in their system. You don’t want anyone else to get it or have it period. If they insist go somewhere else or live without it. It really is not worth the risk. I am personally boycotting every business that wants to scan IDs.


22 posted on 02/06/2025 1:04:38 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: Libloather

It doesn't matter.

If you've waited until 2025 to start worrying about leaving less of a digital footprint, your habits already are well-documented. The government already knows with a high degree of certainty where you'll be any hour of the day, any day of the week, any month of the year.

You should have thought of this before you signed on to anything with so sinister a name as "social" media.

23 posted on 02/06/2025 4:56:58 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Libloather

No, your thread's title isn't any more deserving of attention that anybody else's. Mind your manners.

24 posted on 02/06/2025 4:58:03 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Libloather

This might help for a few people in limited situations, but for the most part it’s too late. Almost everyone’s data is out there via direct access to data sources that have been hacked several times over.


25 posted on 02/07/2025 4:52:54 AM PST by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy. )
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To: Lockbox

He lost his privileges for sniffing one of the neighbors Mares🐴🐎


26 posted on 02/07/2025 12:52:55 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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