87. How to Be Invisible: A Step-By-Step Guide To Protecting Your Assets, Your Identity, And Your Life - J.J. Luna

With frightening real-life stories, Luna makes his case for why personal privacy has basically disappeared in the age of technology; and how you can get yours back (and why you want to!). For example, what if someone with the same name as you is committing criminal activity, and you start being investigated? Do you really want government agents listening to all of your phone calls? And of course there are always (unfortunately) weird stalkers, so single women especially should not have their home address readily available in the public domain.
Some of the information was definitely helpful - i.e. how you can construct an alternative mail drop and ghost address, how to keep your real domicile unknown (a rule that he emphasized throughout the book: NEVER couple your name with your real home address), and how to avoid using your social security number and birth date for identification purposes.
But while a lot of his suggestions really seem like they are useful for undercover cops and women with stalkers (and criminals), I think they're a bit over the top for anyone else. For example, Luna explains how to set up limited liability companies and says that you should have your car, home, etc. titled in the LLC instead of in your own name; he also says that in lieu of giving a utility or phone company your social security number to run a credit check when you first sign up for service, you should give them a $1,000 deposit and ask that it be returned to you if/when you've made all of your payments on time after a year. I can understand the rationale behind those suggestions - you never known when a private investigator might be after you, or when the phone company's records would be hacked and someone gets a hold of your SSN - but what about those of us who are not yet at the point in life where we can just drop $1,000 deposits?
Still, just knowing how easily a criminal/stalker can get a hold of and exploit your personal information will make you want to use at least some of the suggestions in this book and protect yourself more.