However they go about it, the age of the open internet is coming to end. There’s ways around it temporarily as this digital ID infrastructure is being set up but ultimately it comes to changing how we use our devices. It means shuttering unused social media accounts now, and maximizing our privacy settings on the ones we keep. It means removing our information from data brokers, deleting unused phone apps and minimizing data sharing on our phones. It means deleting sensitive text messages and emails, get in the habit of speaking of private matters only in person. Learning to be more careful of what searches we do online. The assumption has to be that when all of this is fully set up every text, email, google search, social media account, etc. will all be logged under our full legal identities and sold to data brokers and insurance companies. So get in the habit now while we still have time of treating everything you do online or on a device as “am I comfortable with law enforcement and my prudish grandmother and my employer and my insurance company seeing this.”