Extreme Privacy: The Definitive Counter-Tracking Playbook
Step-by-step system for eliminating your digital footprint from the ground up: burner device protocols, data broker mass-removal, anonymous addresses, virtual identities, and operational security methods used by intelligence professionals and journalists.
Key Takeaways
- Annual updated edition — stays current with changing data broker landscape
- Complete data broker opt-out system across 200+ services
- Anonymous phone, billing address, and financial account setup
- Virtual machine and network anonymity configurations
- Threat models for journalists, abuse survivors, and high-risk individuals
Bazzell is the most technically thorough privacy author working. A former FBI cybercrime investigator who switched sides, he updates this book annually to keep pace with the data broker industry. No other single book gives you a complete removal and anonymization system.
If you're serious about operational privacy — not just cautious, but serious — this is mandatory reading before configuring any gear.
Michael Bazzell spent over a decade as an FBI cybercrime investigator before dedicating his career to teaching privacy defense. He hosts the Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show podcast and is widely regarded as the foremost practical privacy authority outside of classified government work.
Bazzell's phone and device protocols require physical signal management:
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