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Set up a corporation, employ yourself, and send invoices from the corporation to the people who wish you to perform services for them.

I've been doing this for over a dozen years. My customers don't need to have a single piece of my PII.

To be honest, the thought of sending even a single piece of my PII to a customer or vendor gives me the heebie-jeebies, given what we know about data breaches. I don't even let my personal services people handle my data in Google Apps until and unless I've shipped them a chromebook and walked them through setting up hardware 2FA and enabling Advanced Protection.

I'm waiting for a national bank chain or AmEx to get popped; thanks to the legally mandated total lack of financial privacy in the United States there's no way to insulate oneself from those vendors.



Isn't this pretty expensive?


Not in my experience.




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