Is it feasible for a regular American to keep their physical address private?
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Re: Is it feasible for a regular American to keep their physical address private?
#2I've always wished the USPS would provide this as a service. I register my name and/or any number of virtual address aliases. Then, I privately keep the USPS up to date with a physical address for each alias.
You can take it even further and authorize requests for verification. E.g., I can let my car insurance company see my zip code, or even just get a yes/no that I live in a specific zip code.
Re: Is it feasible for a regular American to keep their physical address private?
#3Something to consider: Don't register to vote. Might seem counterintuitive but your address is publicly available if you do. Too bad since voting seems important, but not more important than personal privacy if you are in a similar situation.
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#5Certainly. Put the home in a trust with an address at a law office. As long as you never tell anyone that is your address, and as long as you never have any of your billing or payments, or anything under your name connected to that address, it is certainly possible. Of course, everything would have to be paid for/billed to etc. a shell essentially at the law office
Re: Is it feasible for a regular American to keep their physical address private?
#6I've always wished the USPS would provide this as a service. I register my name and/or any number of virtual address aliases. Then, I privately keep the USPS up to date with a physical address for each alias. You can take it even further and authorize requests for verification. E.g., I can let my car insurance company see my zip code, or even just get a yes/no that I live in a specific zip code.
It's been proposed, and rejected by USPS: https://s.ai/paf/
Re: Is it feasible for a regular American to keep their physical address private?
#7Certainly. Put the home in a trust with an address at a law office. As long as you never tell anyone that is your address, and as long as you never have any of your billing or payments, or anything under your name connected to that address, it is certainly possible. Of course, everything would have to be paid for/billed to etc. a shell essentially at the law office
I have seen this not work most of the time.
Source: am a lawyer.
Extreme privacy is extremely expensive and permanently lifestyle-altering.
Take your strategic and tactical cues from Cold War-era spycraft and from current-day hyperparanoid internet security practices.
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#8I always found it interesting that you cannot have a domain name without publishing your address and phone number, or paying for an extra service.
Re: Is it feasible for a regular American to keep their physical address private?
#9Certainly. Put the home in a trust with an address at a law office. As long as you never tell anyone that is your address, and as long as you never have any of your billing or payments, or anything under your name connected to that address, it is certainly possible. Of course, everything would have to be paid for/billed to etc. a shell essentially at the law office
I have seen this not work most of the time. Source: am a lawyer. Extreme privacy is extremely expensive and permanently lifestyle-altering. Take your strategic and tactical cues from Cold War-era spycraft and from current-day hyperparanoid internet security practices.
So it's not possible to keep a business private? Are we talking from the government or from other people in the private sector? I know the former isn't possible, but it would be nice to have some isolation from some of the crazier elements of the internet.
Re: Is it feasible for a regular American to keep their physical address private?
#10I always found it interesting that you cannot have a domain name without publishing your address and phone number, or paying for an extra service.
Nothing stopping you from making up a physical address. As far as Name Cheap is concerned, I live in New York (I do not live in New York). In theory* "they" could revoke your domain, but, in practice my oldest domain is 28 years and still mine.