User fallingknife over at SDF recently posted the "Angry Person's
Guide to Privacy"[1]. How appropriate that I logged into Walmart
this morning (there was a health item that it made sense to buy
and have shipped to the store there, that they didn't carry
locally), and noticed that under "reorder" they had associated
EVERY ITEM that I had ever purchased in the store, with my new
online account (which I had only used to purchase one particular
item). Illusion of privacy shattered. That's what I get for
using the same payment mechanism, a non-private debit card.

There goes the "Angry" bit.

I loved fallingknife's advice. Some of it I already follow, some
of it was already on my radar, other bits I hadn't really thought
about. My phone, for example; I've gone "dumb phone" in the past,
but have a smart phone currently. I could do better about just
turning it off when I'm not using it. I own a Garmin Nuvi with
updated maps for my area, but I don't use it because I'm lazy.

You know, when it comes to it, most of my privacy issues are
from laziness. I think that's by design, actually, an engineered
behavior pattern. That takes at least some of the blame off me,
for a while.

[1] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/fallingknife/phlog/20190823_angry-persons-guide-to-privacy.txt

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