Articles by Bill Rounds

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Get a Tin Foil Hat?

How to hinder tracking and surveillance via your cell phone. Article by Bill Rounds.

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2/3/2015

Can You Still Protect Your Privacy?

Bill Rounds on communications tools to thwart PRISM surveillance.

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6/18/2013

Taxing Baby Jesus

And how it applies to you. Article by Bill Rounds.

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3/29/2013

Taxing Baby Jesus

And how it applies to you.

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3/29/2013

Your Cell Phone Is Threatening Your Privacy

Bill Rounds on mitigating some of the sneaky data collection.

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6/13/2012

Cop Corruption Is Out of Control

Bill Rounds on protecting your personal info from police abuse.

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4/16/2012

Do You Want Your Medical History To Be Public?

Bill Rounds on a way to protect yours from government abuse.

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4/14/2012

A Public or a Private Affair?

Protect your family's financial secrecy with a living trust, says Bill Rounds.

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4/2/2012

7 Ways to Prevent Identity Theft

You can never be too cautious, says Bill Rounds.

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3/20/2012

The Ministry of Information?

Bill Rounds on the massive scope and dangers of government intelligence gathering.

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3/17/2012

Dissent Without Fear

Bill Rounds on how to create an anonymous website.

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3/14/2012

3 Steps To Handling a Subpoena

How to protect your privacy from one of the most invasive legal tools.

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3/7/2012

Pre-Vanish Before You Have To

One tool to start using now is anonymous web surfing, says Bill Rounds.

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3/1/2012

How to Protect Your Wireless Network from Prying Eyes

Bill Rounds on the basics of cryptographic protocols.

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2/29/2012

Chained and Naked

Bill Rounds on how taking out a loan exposes you to pecuniary predators.

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2/20/2012

A Fertile Ground for Spying Government Trolls

Bill Rounds on fake names and info on Facebook.

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2/6/2012

Are Your Phone Conversations Being Recorded?

Check here to see what your state law is, says Bill Rounds.

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2/4/2012

Thwarting the Privacy Predators

Have fun with decoy drives, and practice the art of misdirection, says Bill Rounds.

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1/28/2012

How Safe Is Cloud File Storage?

Bill Rounds on 3 options for privacy and security.

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1/12/2012

It’s Not How Much You Make, It’s How Much You Keep

Bill Rounds on how independent contractors make more for everyone.

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12/27/2011

How To Use a Foreign Driver’s License

To protect your privacy.

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12/20/2011

Facebook and Privacy

Take these precautions to avoid unwanted disclosures, says Bill Rounds.

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11/28/2011

How To Create an Anonymous Website

Protect dissent from government violence.

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10/13/2011

The Key to Peaceful Protest Is Privacy

Bill Rounds on how the cops and their spy tools can and will ruin dissidents.

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10/7/2011

The Only Way To Keep Your Medical Records Private

Bill Rounds on how to avoid government's spying, prying, abuse.

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10/5/2011

When You Shuffle Off

Don't let the courts make your private financial life public, says Bill Rounds.

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9/19/2011

Ignore the Cops

Do not consent to iris or facial scans. Bill Rounds on "free to leave" encounters.

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9/1/2011

Protect Your Most Private Information

Get a foreign driver's license, says Bill Rounds.

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5/30/2011

Could You Be Prosecuted for Using Gold and Silver?

The Liberty Dollar case leaves the legal landscape muddy and threatening, says Bill Rounds.

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5/11/2011

Put Another Lock on Your Information Door

Bill Rounds on pretexting and how to avoid it.

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5/9/2011

More Money and More Privacy for Everyone

Bill Rounds on being and hiring independent contractors.

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4/28/2011

How To Protect Your Cell Phone From Nosy Cops

Don't consent to any searches, says Bill Rounds, and consider these 5 other strategies to protect yourself.

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4/27/2011

A Simple Way to Create Ultra-Strong, Secure Passwords

Bill Rounds explains his favorite free, open-source program.

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4/20/2011

Be Careful With Your Return Address

Bill Rounds on how snail-mail is tracked and data-based.

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4/18/2011

Gone: 4th Amendment Protection Against Unreasonable Searches

But Bill Rounds has a family protection plan to avoid prying eyes.

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4/14/2011

What Happened to the ‘Liberty Dollar’?

A dissenting view from Bill Rounds.

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4/7/2011

How To Keep Your Private Address Private

Bill Rounds on strategies to stay out of address lookup databases.

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3/25/2011

How To Keep Your Phone Number Private

Bill Rounds has some tips and tricks to keep your numbers out of the public eye.

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3/23/2011

Keep Your Assets Hidden in Plain Sight

And your name out of public records, says Bill Rounds.

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3/12/2011

Want To Stop Junk Mail?

Bill Rounds on how.

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3/8/2011

My Privacy Library

Bill Rounds recommends four essential books for us.

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3/2/2011

How To Remove Your Personal Info from the Internet

Bill Rounds lists the main sites where you can start.

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2/23/2011

When a Greedy Government Destroys Your Business

Here's how to move it to another state or country, says Bill Rounds.

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2/21/2011

How To Make Your Home Your Castle

Bill Rounds on the options for privacy fencing.

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2/19/2011

Your Very Own Top Secret Spy Tool

How to utilize and protect your SmartPhone, and remotely control a drone quadcopter too.

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2/16/2011

Don’t Let Them Kidnap Your Children

Learn how to prevent a government from attempting to exercise jurisdiction where it has none, says Bill Rounds.

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2/9/2011

Even Your Pizza Guy Is Tracking You

Bill Rounds on how to order yours anonymously.

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2/8/2011

How To Avoid Springing a Personal WikiLeak

Bill Rounds on how to protect your valuable and legitimate secrets.

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1/31/2011

What Bank Privacy?

Bill Rounds on its virtual non-existence in the US.

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1/24/2011

Living Off the Grid…in Suburbia?

Bill Rounds on increasing your privacy through resource independence.

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1/20/2011