Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear

by Michael Bazzell

Extreme Privacy is Michael Bazzell's comprehensive guide to protecting your personal information and digital identity from both targeted investigation and mass surveillance. Drawing on his experience as an OSINT investigator, Bazzell essentially reverses his own techniques, showing readers how to remove themselves from the databases, social networks, and public records that investigators use to find people. The book covers legal name changes, address obfuscation, phone number and email privacy, financial privacy, vehicle registration, real estate ownership structures, and digital compartmentalization. Each chapter provides actionable steps for reducing your digital footprint, with specific instructions for opting out of data brokers, configuring privacy settings, and creating layered identity protection. The level of detail is extraordinary, covering everything from how to receive packages anonymously to structuring LLC ownership to keep your name off public records.