My self-rating for data privacy and security is 4/10. 
What I do to merit that:

- I update all priority security and technical patches
- I use Linux
- I use KeePass for my passwords
- I use EFF dice and handbook for my passphrases
- I use PGP keys and command-line GPG for emails to my penpals
- I don't set up Gmail or any email on my phone and I turn it off when I 
am travelling without a geocache purpose.
- I use Firefox Focus on my phone
- I actively opt-out of commercial data sharing when invited
- I geocache, which literally is about sharing my positions through data
so I'll never be above a 6 until I get a refurbished Garmin 162 GPS unit
- I encrypt my HD when I take my PC over the border
- I use a flip phone with no internet over the border
- I have a Keybase account
- I have at least one Tails USB drive
- I back up my system at least occasionally
- I use Tor Browser on occasion
- my GUI mail clients present messages without HTML
- my Gmail (18 year old account) is delivered via Thunderbird
- I buy my 2600 magazines with cash!
- I have a protonmail account
- I have five-six active do-not-track and ad-block add-ons on my Firefox browser
- I empty my caches and destroy the cookies regularly when using other browsers


Now I expect some scoffing but consider this, my ratings are on a curve.
They'd be higher if I had significant development or opsec experience.
Given my demographics, in a pool of 999 people my age and sex and IT experience, 
135 others may meet or exceed those practices. If I weren't in a tech-centred
area, 29 others matching those demographic criteria would meet or exceed those
practices.

I brought up the discussion not to brag, but to see what I could learn from people
who gave themselves a self-rating of 2 and above. I'd be pleased if someone adopted 
one of my procedures, but that's not my primary aim.

[1] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/data-security-ratings.txt
[2] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/0/~christina/InfosecAndDataPrivacy.txt
[3] gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/tomasino/phlog/20180810-data-security-ratings