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The data that follows you

Chapter 2 of 5 · Section 4 of 12

Sections

1. Intro

  • 1. Agenda
  • 2. 2022 — a map, drawn by hand

2. The data that follows you

  • 3. You have a file you never opened
  • 4. The footprint is a threat model

3. From awareness to a machine

  • 5. Find, dispute, delete, prove
  • 6. Dispute — an attorney on the report
  • 7. Delete — a client can only ask
  • 8. The trust boundary is structural

4. Access to justice at product scale

  • 9. Operated by the Foundation
  • 10. Prove it without disclosing it

5. Wrap Up

  • 11. Delete your data
  • 12. Resources
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The footprint is a threat model

Reducing your footprint is not vanity. A smaller footprint shrinks the surface for doxxing, SIM-swap social engineering, and stalkerware — and it is a right you can exercise, not just a setting you toggle.

Presenter notes

This is where the security framing earns its place. The same broker record that blocks a lease is the raw material for targeted social engineering: the answers to your security questions, the pattern of your addresses, the names of your relatives. Threat-modeling your own footprint means treating those records as exposure and deleting what you can. The difference from ordinary opsec is that a lot of this exposure is governed by law — the Fair Credit Reporting Act, state deletion rights — so the lever is legal as much as technical. That is the seam a law firm can work that a VPN cannot.

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