selective privacy

recent news stories indicate that data storage is growing between 20-50% annually. do you honestly think that your life events are excluded from this public data in any way?

we hear about browsing cookies, shopping habits, spam mail, etc. some of it we like such as domino’s pizza ads because our previous order is in their database. other more subtle solicitications from credit card activities are less recognizable yet all part of this data storage avalanche.

we get annoyed and feel helpless at this loss of privacy. since it erodes with every single new transaction, let’s step back. one hundred percent privacy is unattainable. yet we can have ‘selective’ privacy. what is most important to you…an email account or your financial assets? rather than frustration trying to stop a locomotive, think about how do you ‘manage’ data reality.

in this context, break the link between the ‘public you’ and your valuable assets. you might think a corporation or llc…nope. they’re public, expensive, time consuming and require ongoing paperwork. what to do? use a private trust. A living trust (carefully named) and certainly land trusts, personal property trusts and business trusts. you now have ‘selective’ privacy.