Having an agent proxy for you won't last long. If that agent has connections to your friends' agents, your place of work, etc., then the protection provided by the proxy whittles away quickly.
To find you, all anyone would need is a photo of you, match it to an existing photo tagged as your agent, and your agent's online presence is clearly identified.
You could rotate to a new agent every time you go online, or randomly while online, but forget about making purchases, maintaining friendships or building "cred".
The only sure way to separate you, the person, from your online presence is to not have an online presence. For the company in question above, the only way to isolate yourself from their "running to tell Mom" business model is to simply not put your resume up on LinkedIn.
This ruling is troubling in many ways. HiQ can scrape the web, and now, apparently, so can every other personal information brokers out there. (Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_broker, which naively suggests this information is only important to advertisers; it is also of interest to governments, police, employers, even the parents of the S.O. you intend on marrying, or the S.O. themselves.)
Is there a company that will track your online posts while you are supposed to be working, and "run and tell Mom" that you were doing something other than work? As an employer, would you pay for such a service?
I'm not even convinced that air-gapping your person from the internet would work in this new world. A lack of online presence, while not damming in itself (yet), could indicate "something to hide."
To find you, all anyone would need is a photo of you, match it to an existing photo tagged as your agent, and your agent's online presence is clearly identified.
You could rotate to a new agent every time you go online, or randomly while online, but forget about making purchases, maintaining friendships or building "cred".
The only sure way to separate you, the person, from your online presence is to not have an online presence. For the company in question above, the only way to isolate yourself from their "running to tell Mom" business model is to simply not put your resume up on LinkedIn.
This ruling is troubling in many ways. HiQ can scrape the web, and now, apparently, so can every other personal information brokers out there. (Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_broker, which naively suggests this information is only important to advertisers; it is also of interest to governments, police, employers, even the parents of the S.O. you intend on marrying, or the S.O. themselves.)
Is there a company that will track your online posts while you are supposed to be working, and "run and tell Mom" that you were doing something other than work? As an employer, would you pay for such a service?
I'm not even convinced that air-gapping your person from the internet would work in this new world. A lack of online presence, while not damming in itself (yet), could indicate "something to hide."