[jkepler]

Cash is king for privacy. Pay with cash as often as possible. Walk or bicycle. Write paper letters, mail them with cash-purchased stamps. Looks tuff up at the library. Use an analog film camera, physical maps and a compass to navigate.

If you need to type, get an old mechanical typewriter, and lots of paper for when you mistype and have to redo the entire page...

Or, learn encryption and prefer open/free software solutions as much as possible.

[mu53]

Almost nobody lives like this. Anyone that does is giving up on modern society. It shouldn't be an exclusive or. You should be able to have privacy and be part of society

[sovok_x]

It's not a question of should or not. People just willingly give up privacy for convenience. For example merely using a phone (not to mention a smartphone with their location awareness capabilities, or a plain mobile phone with their multilateration, any one that works at all, even a landline if you use it at that very moment) is a breach of privacy. But you need it to function in a modern society. You can avoid such things by taking some extra steps but each of those steps takes progressively more effort and bites a huge chuck of the aforementioned convenience, not only for you but also for the other side of your social interaction.

The whole original topic is more about prevalent abuses of authority than privacy itself, though. And that's a different thing because protecting your privacy from authorized and/or dedicated actors is always quite difficult, if possible at all, even with a proper privacy "hygiene", and needs a totally different approach.

[xattt]

> Use an analog film camera

Where are you getting your colour negatives developed?

[a012]

If you can buy some equipments and chemicals (eg JOBO labs and kits) with cash, then developing C41 (or negative) films is trivial and you can diy.

[jerpint]

Should be “and learn encryption” not “or”

[fzzzy]

a non connected digital camera would seem more practical.