I use the term Disappear Privacy because real privacy is about making the information, connections and trails that lead to you disappear. Not in the sense of deleting your digital footprint, but learning how to control the vulnerabilities that make you easy to find.
My name is Frank M. Ahearn. I have spent more than thirty years working with people, information and privacy.
I started as a skip tracer, finding people who did not want to be found. I learned social engineering, how information connects, how identities create trails and how seemingly insignificant details can lead directly to a person.
Then I reversed the work.
I began teaching people how to disappear.
Then actually disappearing those who needed to go.
Today, I use those decades of experience to create privacy for clients around the world.
Privacy Fixer
I describe myself as a Privacy Fixer because the work I do does not always have a convenient name.
A privacy company might remove information. A cybersecurity company protects technology. A security company protects people and property.
My work is different.
I work with the person.
Human privacy.
I look at their life, information, identity, visibility and the connections between them. I use experience from skip tracing, social engineering, disappearing people and disinformation to determine what needs to change.
There is no standard privacy plan because there is no standard client.
Real privacy has to be designed around the person.
Who Can Make My Information Private? Frank Makes People Private
Extreme Privacy Help
Extreme privacy goes beyond removing your address from a website.
It requires looking at how your life actually works. What information needs to remain public? What needs to become private? What identities need separation? What connections should no longer exist? Where can disinformation create privacy when deletion cannot?
For many clients, the privacy service they need isn’t something listed on a website because it has to be created specifically for them.
That’s the point.
True privacy is not dictated by content on a website or instructions in a book. Yes, you can learn tactics from a book, but real privacy is more than tactics. Real privacy comes from designing it around the client.
Who Can Help Me With an Extreme Problem? Frank Fixes Problems
Frank Disappears People
Disappearing people is a particular service for a particular client.
It is also where everything I learned as a skip tracer comes together.
Before I could understand how to make someone difficult to find, I needed to understand how people were found. I spent years following names, addresses, businesses, family, relationships and identities from one connection to another. That experience makes me different from everyone else hawking privacy services.
Disappearing means thinking in reverse.
Who Can Help Me Disappear? Frank Disappears People
Not every privacy client needs to disappear. Most don’t.
Some need to become more difficult to locate.
Who Can Help Me Become Hard to Find? Frank Makes People Difficult to Locate
Others need separation between their public identity and private life.
Who Can Help Me Become a Different Person Online? Frank Creates Identity Separation
Others simply want to live with less of their personal life available to strangers.
Who Can Help Me Live More Anonymously? Frank Creates Anonymous Lives
Privacy Is Not Always About Deleting Information
Coming from skip tracing rather than technology means I don’t automatically see privacy as a deletion problem.
Sometimes information should be removed. Sometimes it should be separated. Sometimes disinformation is more useful.
The problem with thinking deletion is the solution is that information can always return online. Deleting is a Band-Aid when you’re dealing with online data.
Why fight information when you can manipulate it?
Privacy Designed Around You
I don’t begin with a package.
I begin with the client.
Tell me what you want private. Tell me what needs to remain public. Tell me what you want to change.
Then I figure out what can be done.
That is what being a Privacy Fixer means to me.
Schedule a Private Consultation
You don’t need to know exactly what privacy service you need. Tell me what you want to accomplish, and I’ll figure out the options.
Contact me to schedule a private consultation.
FA@FrankAhearn.com
How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, And Vanish Without A Trace
My New York Times bestselling book about disappearing, protecting your privacy, controlling information and understanding how the trails you leave behind can lead someone directly to you.
Books by Frank M. Ahearn
Books can teach you how I think. They cannot design privacy around your life.
How to Disappear: A Pocket Guide to Thinking, Planning, and Staying Gone
My work disappearing people comes from decades spent understanding information, identity and what makes someone findable.
Amazon US | Amazon Canada | Amazon Australia | Amazon UK
How to Disappear: AI War Edition – I Am Not Your Data, Digital Starvation and the Art of Becoming Extinct
A modern look at disappearing when AI studies your behavior, habits and patterns. This is less about old-school disappearing tactics and more about digital starvation, unpredictability and taking back control from machines that learn who you are.
Amazon US | Amazon Canada | Amazon Australia | Amazon UK
How to Disappear Journal: Seventy Of The Most Important Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Disappear
Before you disappear, ask yourself the right questions. This journal is designed to make you think about your motives, habits, privacy and the decisions that could make or break a disappearing plan.
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Amazon US | Amazon Canada | Amazon Australia | Amazon UK
I Was A Skip Tracer
Before I made people private, I found them. This is the other side of my work and where much of what I know about information and privacy began.
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More About Disappearing Privacy
I’ve been writing about disappearing people, privacy and how people are found for years. If you want to go deeper, read more of my articles about how to disappear, extreme privacy, digital identity and becoming difficult to locate.
Creating a Non-Digital Personal Space: The Step to Disappearing
How to Disappear: Blueprint Your Life
Extreme Privacy Is the New How to Disappear