Privacy Guides

What data brokers know about you, and how to stop them. See data sources, risks, and step-by-step opt-outs. Clean up old social posts with Redact.

Ready to leave social media? Clean your accounts up, revoke app permissions, and safely deactivate using this simple 4-step privacy guide.

Deleting your social media footprint with Redact takes four steps. Pick your platforms, filter by date or keyword, preview the deletion, then schedule cleanups.

Protect yourself from doxxing with a 24-hour sprint: lock down accounts, clean up posts and images, and set a recurring privacy routine.

Employers check your socials first. Audit, delete, and polish your online footprint before you apply. Step-by-step cleanup + Redact.dev to automate fast.

Discord's August 2025 policy update brought UK ID checks and wider use of your data for ads and Quests. See what's collected and which settings limit it.

DOGE copied SSA’s NUMIDENT to AWS with weak safeguards - putting 300M Americans at risk. What happened, and how to protect your identity.

Delete every ChatGPT chat in one click, or bulk delete by date, keyword, or content type. Covers web, iPhone, Android, memory, and what OpenAI keeps.

Learn what a social media footprint is, why it affects jobs, privacy, and compliance, and how to audit and clean it up fast with manual checks or Redact.

Stop Facebook social engineering: spot profile cloning and quiz bait, lock down privacy, and bulk-delete risky posts fast with Redact.

Home Depot is being sued over alleged facial recognition at its self-checkout kiosks. We cover what the lawsuit claims and why shoppers should care.

A Reddit user revealed their LinkedIn likes were flagged in a background check, raising questions about privacy, fairness, and the future of hiring.

The best web browsers for privacy in 2026, compared. Brave, Firefox, Tor, DuckDuckGo, Edge and more, with their privacy features and trade-offs.

AI tools like GeoSpy can pinpoint the location of a photo in seconds, even without metadata. Learn how this impacts your privacy.

Learn how to turn off the new Friends Reels feature in just a few steps. Our guide shows you exactly where to find the settings to keep your activity private.

How YouTube’s 2025 ID checks work, and why UK & Australian laws demand stricter age assurance.

Learn how to turn off Instagram’s new maps feature and stop location sharing entirely. Step-by-step instructions for all devices.

Looking to delete Yelp reviews or your account history? Redact lets you bulk delete reviews from Yelp in just a few clicks. Here's how.