12 Considerations for Opening Your Next Account – Part 2

Have you ever opened an account and regretted it? Has your private data been used, abused, and breached? We have years of experience fighting with hundreds, if not thousands of different apps and services to harden, sanitize, delete sensitive information, and recover from data breaches. In this episode, we share our insights from these experiences so you can hopefully avoid the pitfalls we and our clients have encountered over the years. More specifically, here in Part 2 of 2, we discuss: 1. App and service providers may make it difficult or impossible to close your account or delete your data; 2. Many or most entities will be breached; 3. App and service providers may not actually be deleting your data when they’re supposed to; 4. Phone numbers for SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) being abused; 5. Usernames and email addresses revealing information and linking accounts; and 6. Password recovery and other features revealing information about you. Take these considerations seriously when you consider opening your next account. We also discuss detailed action items for addressing these concerns, but caution listeners that some of the techniques detailed in this episode (fake information, email aliases, VOIP phone numbers, etc.) may not be appropriate or lawful in some jurisdictions or some circumstances. Some of the images presented in the video and blog content for this episode are AI-generated and provided for entertainment purposes only. Visit us at biggerinsights.com to request a consultation or read our blog. Please consider making a non-deductible contribution to help us break through Big Tech suppression and keep this podcast going. OpenAlias: contribute.biggerinsights.com. Monero (XMR), Bitcoin (BTC), and Litecoin (LTC) addresses at biggerinsights.com/support-us. Disclaimer: We are not attorneys or other legal professionals and nothing in this episode should be construed as legal or other advice.