Privacy & Safety Guides

Step-by-step instructions for protecting your personal information online. From removing your data from AI platforms to responding to doxxing, stalking, and harassment.

Threat response & safety

What to do if you've been doxxed

Immediate steps, evidence preservation, and reporting channels

Urgent

Responding to online harassment & threats

Platform reporting, documentation, and escalation paths

Cyberstalking: what to do

Federal and state legal remedies, safety planning

Urgent

Swatting protection

Proactive registration, 911 flagging, address removal

Urgent

Digital safety for DV survivors

Device security, account separation, evidence handling

Urgent

Sextortion: what to do

Reporting, takedown, and the TAKE IT DOWN Act

Urgent

Identity theft recovery plan

Credit freeze, FTC report, dispute process

After a data breach: your action plan

What to do in the first 48 hours

Protecting children's online privacy

COPPA rights, broker removal, monitoring

Protect elderly parents from scams

Phone scam defense, broker removal, credit freeze

Prevention & privacy hardening

Remove your home address from the internet

People-search sites, Google, public records

Remove yourself from people-search sites

The complete opt-out playbook

Google "Results about you" removal

De-index your personal info from search

Credit freeze & fraud alert guide

All three bureaus, step by step

Stop spam calls & robocalls

Registry, blocking, and broker removal

Remove your data from AI platforms

Remove personal data from AI (overview)

How AI companies use your data and how to opt out

Remove data from ChatGPT

Training opt-out, account deletion, output removal

Remove data from Google Gemini

Activity controls, training opt-out

Remove data from Claude (Anthropic)

Training policy, data deletion

Remove data from Microsoft Copilot

Bing data, activity clearing

Remove data from Perplexity

Search history, training controls

Opt out of Meta AI training

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp data controls

Opt out of Grok / X training

X (Twitter) data controls for xAI

Delete your accounts

Delete Facebook

Deactivation vs deletion, data download

Delete Instagram

Permanent deletion, data retention

Delete X (Twitter)

30-day reactivation window

Delete TikTok

Account deletion, data request

Delete LinkedIn

Profile closure, data export

Delete Reddit

Account deletion, comment persistence

Delete Snapchat

30-day deactivation, then permanent

Delete Discord

Account deletion, server ownership transfer

Delete WhatsApp

Account and backup deletion

Delete Telegram

Self-destruct timer, manual deletion

Delete Threads

Separate from Instagram deletion

Delete YouTube channel

Channel vs Google account deletion

Delete Google account

Full account removal, service-level options

Delete Apple ID

Device implications, data download first

Delete Microsoft account

60-day grace period, linked services

Delete Amazon account

Order history, Kindle, Alexa data

Delete PayPal

Balance zero, resolve disputes first

Delete Venmo

Transfer balance, close account

Delete Tinder

Profile deletion vs app removal

Delete Bumble

In-app deletion, data request

Delete Hinge

Profile deletion, data retention

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