Crossposted using Lemmit.

Original post from /r/privacy by /u/Idiots-R-Invincible on 2023-07-05 11:53:30+00:00.

In an effort to add some extra income to what is proving to be a difficult time financially, I want to start a YouTube channel as a creator with the scope of monetising it at a later stage. There is also a possibility that I will be using TikTok.

None of these apps will ever have access to my face (and my face won’t appear on the videos themselves either), but for monetising reasons Google and TikTok will eventually have access to my personal data (name, bank account, address and phone number).

I know both these apps are hugely intrusive, particularly TikTok. I am planning to create a bank account exclusively associated to this project. I cannot avoid giving my actual address as this will be required for invoicing. I have a Pixel 6A that I have installed a privacy related OS on it (I would name it but then this post would automatically get removed), which will be only used for that project. Also, all content will be uploaded from that specific phone (which will have a phone number exclusively for that use and will never be used for any personal communication), even though the content itself will be created in different devices (PC, laptop).

My question is: how would you approach this from a privacy point of view? I know I can’t talk about privacy when I will have already given the details I mentioned above, but I do not want to give them any more than the absolute minimum required.