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Practical ways to reduce your digital footprint
Everyday habits that limit how much of your personal information ends up exposed online.
Removing existing listings helps, but limiting what gets collected in the first place matters just as much.
Habits that help
- Use a separate email address for shopping and sign-ups.
- Review the privacy settings on your social-media accounts; limit who can see your phone number and email.
- Be selective about loyalty programmes and competitions that ask for your address.
- Use a password manager and unique passwords, so one breach does not expose other accounts.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for email, banking and mobile-money accounts.
If your email appears in a data breach
Breached data cannot be deleted from the copies criminals already hold. Change the password on the affected service and anywhere you reused it, enable two-factor authentication, and stay alert to phishing messages that mention the breached service.
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