Try everything. "Almost anything you do in today's society involves leaving a track," said Doug Klunder of the American Civil Liberties Union. He's the director of the ACLU of Washington's Privacy Project, from the article "In the digital world, we trade privacy for convenience."
We are tracked almost from the moment we wake up. Our cell phone track are movements, our cars are video taped by camera capable of recognizing license plate numbers and each and every click is tracked.
11 million people were victims of identity theft last year alone. The article found that people between the ages of 18 and 24 are more likely to revel personal data, thus making themselves targets.
Evan Ratliff tried to live a year with out leaving a trace. His readers were able to track him and eventually find him.
Ratliff said paranoia and suspicion quickly set in when he was on the run. There was little romance to living like a fugitive, he said.
"It's hard to let go of that idea that if you really did it right, you could end up on a beach in South America for the rest of your life drinking margaritas," he said. "That's always still there, but I think the actual process of living on the run in the United States -- in the end, it's almost never going to be worth it."
