Court records for instance
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
I use neither email (for years now, a blessing!) nor have my own phone number (VOIP outbound, only). Anything requiring either gets a burner.email or my numeric pager.
A recent civil court action requested both of these obsolete (to me) technologies, and the judge's clerk required that I sign an attestation upon leaving them unanswerable.
Court records are public in my jurisdiction, and I choose to be "unreachable."
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Regarding the linked-to article, a harrowing read (certainly)! US citizens are allowed, by law, to request a FREE COPY of everything LexusNexis has on them in their private consumer file.
I have a numeric (ONLY #'s allowed) pager — pagersdirect . net (coverage available nationally, paid for each metro area you will use pager). I have no affiliation with PDnet, other than as a customer.
If you wish to reach me, you text me your phone number (or a "code" if we have arranged such)... I then call back from an unregistered VOIP calling service (no phone number, so cannot receive calls).
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As for not using email, this was simple: just stop using it! Paul Graham has a great lectures (decades old, now!) wherein he complains that "email is just a to-do list, which other people can place tasks onto." Incredible how we haven't implemented a solution for this yet (e.g. now-depricated hashcash authentication).