Is masking futile?

TLDR: unless you always mask names and home addresses too, is masking email and phone number futile?

My thread model is pretty low: mainly want to stop participation in surveillance capitalism and reduce the risk of identity theft and social engineering.

I've spent a few weeks going down the privacy rabbit hole and have set up:

* Email masking for my accounts
* Phone masking through a handful of phone numbers for different compartments (see bellow)
* A virtual mailing …

addresses capitalism down email engineering home identity identity theft low masking names participation phone phone number privacy risk social social engineering surveillance surveillance capitalism theft tldr