How to use MySudo

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So you’ve set up MySudo? Let’s see what this app can do.

Sudo-ing is simple:

Use MySudo to protect your information.

Anywhere you’d normally use your phone number, email or payment card, use your Sudos instead. Sign up for deals and discounts, book rental cars and hotel rooms, pay for concerts or a coffee, all without giving away your personal information.

A couple ideas to unpack here:

  • A Sudo is a secure, customizable digital identity or ‘profile’ that intentionally differentiates from your personal identity and protects your personal data. A Sudo isn’t a ‘burner’ or fake ID—it’s a real, alternative identity that you can use anywhere your personal identity is required. Your Sudo profile is a secure stand-in for your personal identity,  and it’s entirely under your control. You create your Sudo profiles and manage them. Each Sudo can have its own phone number, handle, email, private browser and payment card. Go inside the Sudo.
  • Personal information (or “personal data” or “digital exhaust ” as it’s often called) consists of all the personal information you give to web sites in exchange for access. It can include your name, age, address, phone numbers, Social Security number, credit card details, credit history, web searches and spending habits – loads of it highly personal and sensitive. See these 14 real-life pieces of personal information you really want to keep private (just for starters).
  • It’s becoming incredibly important to protect our details. When we share our personal information, brands can track it and sell it to data brokers, and bad actors can steal it in a data breach and sell or use it for crimes such as identity theft and credit card fraud. To date, more than 60% of Americans have been the victim of a data breach. In 2023, data breaches in the US increased by a massive 78% over 2022, and impacted an estimated 353,027,892 people. Learn more about data breaches and what to do if you’re caught up in one. 

Now that you know all of that, you’d see the benefit of protecting your information with MySudo, right? So let’s move on to the next way to use MySudo.

Let MySudo secure your chat.

Call, text and email securely inside the app with other users using your Sudo handle or communicate standard outside the app with everyone else. Your Sudo phone and email work just like your private ones and they protect you from spam and scams. 



Private chat is a massive growth industry purely because it’s so important. The chat application market was valued at USD 4.2 billion in 2023 and is expected to jump to USD 18.9 billion by the end of 2030. Reliability, security and privacy are driving forces behind massive consumer demand for this functionality. 



MySudo secures voice, video and group calls and messaging between MySudo users using state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption. If you’re wondering how secure that is, it’s the same encryption standard that governments and the military use.

And if your friends and contacts aren’t on MySudo, invite them to the app so everything you say is secured.

Now that we’ve covered that, let’s look at the third way you can use MySudo:

You can use MySudo to organize your life.

Here we unlock the power of compartmentalization, the military strategy of separating information into compartments to protect it in the event of attack.

In MySudo, the “compartments” are Sudo digital profiles. Depending on your plan, you can have up to 9 separate Sudos and assign each one a different purpose. Figure out your real life privacy needs and then set up MySudo to suit. 

You can shop through a Sudo, sell through a Sudo, eat through a Sudo, live through a Sudo. Learn more.

So, there you have it: How to Sudo in 3 simple steps. 

For more on MySudo head to our blog or our popular podcast, Privacy Files.