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Anything wrong with using my real name in email aliases with organizations I have to communicate using my real identity anyway? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One example would be state disability programs, they already need my real name and identity to work with me. Are there any downsides to sharing a simplelogin alias containing my real name vs no containing my real name? I just think it would be easier record keeping for them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hopefully it’s all electronic. There should be nothing to make easier.

Meanwhile, why would you use a service that maintain privacy, while making choices to lose the benefit?

I used to do something like that a couple decades ago. I still have a domain with wildcard email forwarding, with the goal of using a different email for every service. Then I know who leaked my information, knew which password to reset, and who to block. But it wouldn’t be difficult to connect me with the domain, so one of the reasons I stopped using it was not seeing a privacy benefit (plus it was too much work).

Now that we have services to make it easy, let them do their thing. Every account ve created in the last 3 years has a unique generated email as well as a generated password. It’s all managed by a password manager so easy for me, and every time there’s a leak of my credential, I know which to rest or delete. I know which email to stop forwarding