Pro Privacy Tip

When signing up for nearly any online service, you don’t have to give your real name, address, birthday, or anything. (Banking and URL registry not included.)

Never give real answers to those “lost password challenge questions”. The odds of those answers being stored encrypted is low. If that company is hacked then the hackers will have the secret back door key to open any account you own. Give fake and unique responses. Better yet, make the answers long randomized passwords and store the answers in your password manager.

Always use a unique username for every account so that no one can track you across online services.

Some may feel like this is lying but it is not. You’re just creating an identity with that entity which protects the real you. Security must come first.