Digital Chokepoints

A transit corridor in a smart city: plate readers, airport faces, phone pings, payment. Select the techniques that lower a signature without trying to vanish. Vanishing is a tell.

• Erase the person from every database first
• Ask whether the operation needs that biometric border at all
• Pay cash for a unique one-way ticket at the last minute
• Plan the story the CCTV archive will tell after success
• Reduce correlation between identities; do not worship erasure
• Rely on a cap and a lowered chin in the airport hall