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Unbundle your real identity from your online identity. The problem was solved already with handles, until FB came along.


Was it solved?

Just because the marketers don't have your name as "John Argano", they still know everything about your handle "pishpash".

Even if its not your name, its not anonymous. The same profile can be targeted by political parties and manipulated in ways that we are coming to see as problematic.




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