Ultimate Privacy: How to Disappear, Erase Digital Footprints & Vanish Without a Trace

By Ms. Smith

Created Sep 14 2010 - 4:01pm

In
this digital age as everyone is being tracked by websites, cell phones
and loyalty programs, privacy seems to be a hard commodity to hold onto.
Privacy expert Frank M. Ahearn is the "Dear Abby” of disappearing; he
can help you regain your privacy by teaching you to poof and fall off
the grid.

Disappearing is not the same thing as escaping and always being on
the run. But who better to help an individual go underground than a
person who spent part of his life working as a professional skip-tracer,
hunting people like Monica Lewinsky down, locating people for lawyers,
investigators, and tabloids? The art of ghosting comes down to who is
better at it, your ability to disappear or the hunter's ability to track
you.

Frank M. Ahearn and Eileen C. Horan co-authored How to Disappear : Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace [2].
The book can teach you how to leave, how to get from point A to point
B, how to bank and to buy things. A person must relearn how to
communicate by using a prepaid phone and prepaid phone cards, pick up
free wireless, use disposable memory sticks on a computer and leave no
trace. Technology is a double-edged sword, it can be used against you,
to trace you, or it could be used for you, like to move money around the
world with a click of a button.

Ahearn says that the reasons men and women want to disappear are
usually very different. For men, it is often finances such as if he lost
everything but has some seed money to start over, or if he has come
into money and wants to disappear before family and friends attempt to
suck him dry. Dangerous situations are usually the reason women want to
disappear, such as when she is being stalked or in an abusive
relationship.

He also suggests New Zealand is a great place to start a new life
because it's an English-speaking country that is far away and has great
beaches. Ahearn's website, www.disappear.info [3], offers other great tips about how to vanish without a trace. Your old life and new life must never connect. His book [4] will help teach you to become a virtual individual.

In a Radio Wammo interview [5],
Ahearn spoke of the electronic trail and digital footprint most of us
have with social media profiles. Even if you delete that profile, we
don't know for sure what a company does with that data. Ahearn suggests
to start deviating your information, slowly changing it over to bogus
information which will be picked up by other sites, until you can fake
your online death. Even if a private eye looks for you, false remnants
of your data will be the only trail.

So it's legal and could give you the ultimate privacy? Frank Ahearn
could teach you how to disappear, how to erase your pesky digital
footprints by leaving false trails, and how you could vanish to a
beautiful New Zealand beach. Sounds tempting.