Paid Subscriber-ACTION DESK:Reducing Your Digital Exposure (2026 Edition)
ACTION DESK
Reducing Your Digital Exposure (2026 Edition)
Saturday, January 31st, 2026: 10:07 pm CST
Risk reduction for ordinary people living inside a surveillance-first system
Positioning note (implicit):
This is not about hiding.
It’s about leaking less, linking less, and limiting radius.
THE RULES (READ FIRST)
You cannot make yourself invisible.
You can make yourself harder to casually profile…misidentify…or sweep up.
The goal is discipline…not paranoia.
If a step feels theatrical or extreme…it’s probably useless.
Nothing here is about evading lawful orders or investigations.
Reality check: You can’t “opt out” of modern surveillance. This isn’t invisibility…it’s risk reduction: leak less…link less…and make casual profiling harder.
PART I: STOP THE EASY LEAKS (30 minutes)
1. Kill precise location by default
Do this now:
Set location to “While Using” for all non-essential apps
Turn Precise Location OFF wherever possible
Disable background location access entirely
Why it matters:
Most government “location intelligence” starts life as commercial data.
2. Strip app permissions aggressively
Audit and revoke:
Contacts access
Full photo library access
Bluetooth scanning
Local network access
Rule:
If an app doesn’t break when you revoke access…it never needed it.
3. Shut down ad identifiers
Disable ad personalization
Reset advertising IDs
Opt out of cross-app tracking
This reduces how easily your data is bundled and resold.
