Digital safety and privacy

Your phone knows where you sleep, who you talk to and where you are right now. Digital safety is making sure that information goes only where you choose. Most of it is settings you change once: two-factor sign-in, a password manager, a location sharing check, and locked-down social profiles.

This category walks through those settings in plain steps, plus the harder moments: spotting a romance or job scam, recovering a hacked account, checking for an unknown tracker following you, and changing what needs changing on your phone after a breakup. Most of these take about fifteen minutes and need nothing but the phone in your hand.

One rule runs through every page. If you think someone is monitoring your phone, plan before you remove anything, because removing monitoring software can alert the person who installed it. Contact a domestic violence hotline first; their advocates help with technology safety planning. These guides never cover accessing someone else's device or getting back at anyone.