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THE TEN PRIVACY TENETS
- Do not let anyone know where you actually live
and sleep. Preferably, you should actively
mislead people about where you live.
- Do not let anybody get to know your personal
details. Keep your name out of all government
computers. Do not receive any packages or
sensitive mail in your home.
- Take care when using the telephone. Use codes
in faxes and letters.
- Do not have your vehicle registered in your
own name. Consider having a spare set of
wheels with license plates, insurance papers
and so on in a pen name in a foreign country.
- Do not keep serious assets in either your home
country, your official domicile nor in your
actual country of habitation.
- Do have a place besides your home (self
storage, garage or similar) where you keep
sensitive documents, an extra set of credit
cards, spare cash and - if possible - spare
identity papers.
- Do have at least one anonymous, offshore
corporation that holds title to some assets,
especially bank accounts. Offshore
corporations should, in turn, be owned by a
trust.
- Do take pains to let foreign lawyers and
bankers "get to know you" under an assumed
name. These people may later be useful if you
need professional references for your
alternative identity. Or use a banking
passport.
- Do have a minimum of two mail drops. One near
the country where you live and one in another
far away country. Test mail drops periodically
for efficiency and honesty.
- Do stive to persistantly compartmentalize
both your business and private affairs so that
one slip-up does not set a "domino effect" in
motion. Do not use a maildrop for your bank
accounts and financial affairs. Have your bank
hold all mail at its office.
Do not have anu sensitive information or
purchases forwarded from a maildrop to your home
or business address - have it mailed either to a
hotel in a different city or to a helpful,
understanding friend. Hotels are better, by far.
Yes, it is a tad more time-consuming - but why on
earth risk shooting yourself in the foot.
The only barriers that will protect you against
your fellow man are those you put there yourself.
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