PERSONAL PRIVACY & SECURITY
Practical steps for a safer digital life.
Take care of your personal information, protect the accounts you rely on, and help the people you care about.
You don’t need to be a technical expert to get started. This field guide walks you through everyday tasks, from securing your email and freezing your credit to spotting scams and knowing what to do when something goes wrong.
Start by protecting the email account you use for banking and password resets. Already done that? Choose another task from the index below.
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Begin with the basics
These guides are a good place to start.
Full index
Track your progress on paper
Print the checklists, tick off completed tasks, and keep your follow-up dates together.
Emergency checklist
Something happening right now?
Short first steps for a scam, account takeover, stolen phone or identity theft. Choose what happened and act in order.
Why this exists
Friends and family kept asking the same privacy and security questions, so I wrote the answers down and put them here.
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