7 Privacy Tricks a Former CIA Officer Teaches Seniors Living Alone (That Cost Pennies)

Right now, your name, your age, your street address, and a good guess at whether you live alone are sitting in a file at a company you have never heard of — and that file is legally for sale. The Federal Trade Commission told Congress that Americans 60 and over reported losing about $600 million to this kind of exposure. After 31 years at the CIA, I can tell you almost none of it is about hacking — it is about what you hand over without meaning to. Here are 7 privacy tricks I would teach anyone living alone, and every one costs pennies. You will learn what the name on your mailbox tells a stranger, the summary your trash sets at the curb once a week, the story your yard tells in daylight, the one sentence never to say at the door or on the phone, the name your house is "shouting" a few hundred feet in every direction, the decoy that sends a stranger the wrong way, and the single form that deletes your file for good. None of it costs more than a few dollars, and you can do most of it this week. Tell me in the comments which trick surprised you most. The one with the most comments gets its own full video next. Everything here is public, legal, and about protecting your own privacy. #privacy #seniorsafety #protectyourprivacy #livealone #databrokers #scamprotection #opsec #personalsafety