Reply #4: Keep your important communication with others "off the grid." [View All]

[Selatius]

If you really want to do something to stop the government from snooping on your buying habits and your circle of friends, you keep communications off the grid. Talking face-to-face is harder to follow than is tapping a cellphone conversation. Likewise, someone reading your bank statement full of nothing but ATM withdrawals makes it difficult for the reader to find out what you are doing with your money. Of course, if you have liquid cash tucked away in a safe somewhere, then there wouldn't be a bank account to watch.

Usually, people who do this are individuals the government has a keen interest in following. I don't think I fall under that classification, unless I were a member of some domestic organization the government views as dangerous or am closely associated with individuals who are members of these organizations. If that were true, I wouldn't have bothered posting here for several years now.