No, your thread's title isn't any more deserving of attention that anybody else's. Mind your manners.
Never let anyone electronically scan your ID for ANY REASON. This is becoming a trend with buying booze, tobacco, and even if you use a card as a credit card instead of a checking card. And they will swipe it under the scanner without even telling you they are going to do it. Once scanned too late. It is now permanently in their system and a security risk going forward. Aside from the fact they might even sell your data. Looking at your ID is one thing, electronically scanning it is a huge no no and no one should ever allow this period. This new trend needs to be squashed...
The best way to minimize your digital foot print when traveling is to leave none at all.
Disable the GPS on your vehicle.
Shut your cell phone off, leave it off and put it in a Faraday bag.
Use no other wireless devices while traveling. This includes free wifi and navigational devices. Paper maps still work.
Use cash for all purchases. Avoid registering with a credit card, if necessary sleep in your car at a truck stop to avoid hotel registering.
This may seem a little too much for most, but if you do want as much privacy while traveling as possible, it’s what you should do.
Use a Mule for transportation, sleep in the Stable with the Mule, use cash only for transactions, wear blue jeans and a white T-shirt, wear dark sunglasses, hat, a bandanna over your nose and mouth, mumble if you have to talk.
Or just stay Home.
And no license plate on the Mule.
No mention of a Faraday bag...
In many cases that just propagates your account numbers through the network in order to perfrom the search.
You should have thought of this before you signed on to anything with so sinister a name as "social" media.
No, your thread's title isn't any more deserving of attention that anybody else's. Mind your manners.
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.