1. Regarding personal info demanded by utilities, there is lots of info in this area in HTBI and elsewhere on this site. Suggest you re-read ALL OF IT and make up your own mind how to proceed. IMO, using a nominee and offering a deposit (since there will be no credit history, right?) may be a good way to go. Make sure billing is in the company name only and mail goes to another address.

2. You say NM LLCs do not come with a Tax ID. Of course not! Tax ID numbers are issued by IRS after you form the LLC and apply to IRS. For privacy, use a nominee (or business services which obtain such numbers). To open a bank account (or to "do business" with the LLC), you will usually need a Tax ID number. (If you find a US bank that will open an account without a Tax ID, please let us know!) They WILL ask for your personal info (ID, SSN, etc.). Without it, they will likely not open the account. Have you thought of using a nominee for that?

Finally, what about no bank account at all (and paying by money orders)? Then maybe you don't need the Tax ID number if you will not be "doing business" with the LLC. If unsure, check with a CA attorney knowledgable in LLCs.

Speculation is that FaceBook "sold out" its users' private information for cash, in order to avoid an impending bankruptcy.

If you care about your privacy, be VERY LEERY of using social networking services!

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All,

It is still possible to sign up for DirecTV anonymously and without a contract. Here is how you do it:

1. Call them from an anonymous phone to sign up for service (this cannot be done over the Internet). Because you are calling a toll-free number, blocking your number doesn’t do any good. It will repeat your number back to you and ask if it is the home number where you want to install service. Just say yes (it doesn’t matter).

2. Once you get a sales rep on the phone, make up a story about how you are moving in 9-12 months to a facility that doesn’t allow satellite dishes, so you don’t want a contract. Tell them you are interested in the “Purchase Option”. This means that you buy the equipment instead of leasing it (it is yours to keep forever). The rep will try to convince you to sign a contract – just stick to your guns. The equipment comes with a 90 day warranty, and no equipment protection plan is available for it.

3. The rep will then tell you that the equipment must be purchased in “pairs”. This seems stupid, but it is apparently their policy. What this means is that you will have to buy two receivers, the first type is your choice (an HD-DVR receiver is $200), while the 2nd is forced as a plain old standard (non-HD / non-DVR) receiver ($70). If you ask the rep if you can return the 2nd receiver or substitute a different model for it, they will tell you that they personally can’t do anything, but can transfer you to the “Customer Installations” department after the order is placed and that they will (supposedly) help you do either.

4. There will also be a $50 activation fee, but the installation and dish are free and no credit check is required because you are purchasing the equipment. You can therefore sign up with any name you choose. Because there is no contract, you will need to pay the full price for the monthly package you choose (for example, Choice Extra + HD + DVR is $76/month).

5. The installing technician will deliver and setup the equipment (you need to make sure he brings brand new equipment out – they are known to try and slip in refurbished items), but the initial equipment purchase must be paid in advance by some form of credit card. The sales rep specially told me that prepaid credit cards are fine for this. The first month’s bill will arrive 5 days after installation, and payments can be mailed in or paid online with any form of credit card (prepaid is also fine for this). You can also prepay your service for up to 12 months.

So how does this stack up against signing up for service with a contract? Well, by signing a two year contract you will get 3 free months of HBO and Starz that you MUST cancel in advance or you will be automatically signed up for the service under the full contract terms (stuck with it). You can opt out of this when you sign up for service with a contract, but only over the phone and you must make sure the rep triple-confirms that they have opted you out of it.

You will save about $26/month for the first 12 months ($312 total) by signing a two year agreement. Starting with month 13 the full price resumes. Activation is also free with a contract. When all is said and done, you will pay about $612 more over the first two years for anonymous and contract-free DirecTV service. You do get to keep the equipment, but in two years will it still work and/or be worth anything?

In my opinion, if you don’t plan on moving to a location that has a ban on satellite dishes within the next two years, you are better off having a nominee sign you up for a two year contract. DirecTV allows two free satellite dish moves per year, with the initial installation counting as one “move”. Some risks are that DirecTV’s service may be terrible in your area or that they may drop a network that you must have (just like Time Warner is dropping FOX). If you do ever need to cancel the contract, the cost will be $300-$450 depending on how much of the contract is left.

Good luck…

With a membership in a car-sharing organization, I did not need to purchase additional insurance either.

Daily rates now for car-sharing programs are almost what one would pay when renting a car - but you can do it without giving away a credit or debit card number!

I took public transit anonymously, and when I took trips, I opted to take the bus. To this day, I have NEVER been asked to see an ID to purchase a bus ticket with cash (I give my first and middle name only for their records), nor show my ID to board a bus!

It pays to think sustainably too, when thinking of one's privacy, in my opinion.

The second prepaid phone on a different carrier should only be used for people who know his direct phone number and not his GV number. This would be his most inner circle of friends and family, and this phone would also be used for personal voicemails. You do not want your personal friends leaving personal voicemails on your GV number!

I'm not qualified to say whether GV has the ability to track location, but I would assume that they do, because GV *has* to know where the call is being routed in order to put it through. Once they have that phone number, it's just one more step to track where that phone number is located (triangulation and/or GPS/911 tracking through law enforcement).

I would suggest that he simply separate business from personal, and use the GV number paired with his prepaid phone strictly for business use. Also, go to the GV website and delete all voicemails once you've listened to them.

My only concern is that somehow my anonymous PREPAID cell phone for receiving calls will share info. with GOOGLE, whose business model is to know EVERYTHING. I used to have a pager but there nearly impossible to obtain from a local merchant like Radio Shack, etc.

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In addition, since I speak in tongues, I will ramble off some tongues and then "uhhh no speekee eengleesh! The utter confused look on peoples face is really amusing. You could ramble off some gibberish and that would do fine.

I also use a plethora of stage names at different places I go to on a regular basis like the popular coffee chain that will always ask what a persons name is so they can write it on the cup. If they are ever questioned by someone who has my picture and inquires what my name is then that will be another small layer of mis-information.

BTW.. HTBI is where I got the stage name idea from.
Has anyone ever heard of INFRAGARD? Google it. In short, this allows neighbors and many other everyday people to watch us and report directly to the FBI if they think we are being suspicious in anyway.

Be careful and read the regs carefully. Two possible bad things can happen: First, failing to disclose your other passport might cause both to be invalidated if they twig to it; and second, it may be a criminal offense to "fraudulently" obtain a second passport.

And it's CERTAINLY a crime to try to get a second passport in another name, even if you figure out how to do so.

But, you can always say, if you leave it blank, that you "overlooked" that box. Just DO NOT LIE about it if asked.

A2. The only sure way to not be tracked is remove the battery. The phone can even be reprogrammed remotely to have a live microphone while the phone is turned off by the user. The DOJ admits that it has done so in several cases.

I will be appyling for this passport no matter what (pretty much) but I do intend to leave the field blank and see what happens. I don't see why the second country needs this information. Has anyone else come across this or have any comment? Thanks.

However, having dyslexia can make it difficult to fill out correctly, but having possible errors in the SS# has never been a problem.

If she had a ghost address on her DL, she wouldn't be so worried. Would a LLC have helped?

... Although an LLC would not have helped, a ghost address certainly would have!