Does that mean you are going to live with modern technology & not worry about it? Or avoid as much of the big brother stuff as possible?
I'm an IT security professional so paranoia about technology is my job. And just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. But you can go way overboard with tinfoil hats or going off the grid entirely.
Best to go GRAY MAN, just blend in with the heard, yet keeping other things private enough. It's the art of hiding in plain site with your privacy intact. And I do mean it's an art. Nobody has to live in a paranoid world.
Now, in acting school, we learn much about blending in or getting into the mindset of the character. Going further can land a person big roles in crisis acting out in public. It becomes so believable, that it's hard to tell if you are faking anything.
The capital ordeal had many different crisis actors involved from several organizations. Some more privy with information than others. The crisis actors had to have common issued wares to be noticed only by their leads and left alone. Many just stood around and blended in.
In acting, you have doubles and fill-ins. Fill-ins get to walk further in the distance with really no recognition or attention with the camera. Doubles usually get a bit more camera, but faces are not shown, and at times, height isn't known either. Just another jacket, jeans, shoes or maybe a hand or arm.
Being a gray man today means, wear only the disposable blue face mask. More people wear those. Very generic. Or look at the common black masks too. With a ball cap or hoodie, dark jeans, a person just blends in. No flashy colors nor strips either.
Googling 'California' isn't going to lead to clues.