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Originally Posted by Polydamas
These days it is harder to hide if anyone competent is searching for you: no cell phones, no checking your social media without a good VPN, some places have mandatory registrations for employees and/or taxpayers which will make getting a job difficult ... things were easier 20 years ago. That is before we get into facial-recognition systems, tracking the bills which get put into ATMs and taken back at large chain stores, and other things which major governments deploy or might be deploying against persons of interest at a high enough level.
Before 1914 it was easier to disappear than be found again, but a hundred years later most people who try to disappear in a rich country can be found by a private investigator in a few hours' to a few days' work in a quiet office.
Eleanor Saitta has a good site which talks about the kind of issues that say people helping a battered spouse flee their partner have to worry about.
Edit: And here is one of the articles on the investigators and bounty hunters who had real-time location data on most cell phones in the USA https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...ion-data-years Yeah, you can live just fine without a cell phone or smartphone, but most people who are used to one will not want to give it up, especially if they are moving around frequently. |
Losing your cellphone and refraining from keeping up with your social media is more a matter of a willpower roll to resist addiction than a skill roll.