Privacy Curriculum
Learn to protect your digital identity.
Three tracks — from beginner to advanced. Free articles open to everyone. Paid triage and cleanup clients unlock deeper guides and tools tied to their report.
Track 1: Understanding Your Digital Exposure
No account needed. Start here.
What Is a Digital Footprint?
What public data looks like, where it comes from, and why it matters even if you think you're private.
Read FreeHow Data Brokers Work
Who aggregates your information, how they get it, why opt-outs are temporary, and what the business model is.
Read FreeYour Top 5 Free Privacy Actions
Five things you can do today — no payment required — to reduce visible exposure right now.
Read FreeWhat Gets You Doxxed
The most common patterns that lead to doxxing: reused usernames, photo metadata, consistent handles, and public records.
Read FreeThe 3 Riskiest Places Your Info Lives
People-search sites, old forum profiles, and breach databases — how each one exposes you differently.
Read FreeWhy 'Private' Accounts Aren't Enough
Even locked-down social profiles leave trails through metadata, search indexing, contact syncs, and associated accounts.
Read FreeTrack 2: Acting on Your Report
How to read your report, prioritize actions, and DIY your way through cleanup.
How to Read Your DRG0NF1Y Report
What each section means, how evidence is scored, what to trust vs verify, and which findings to act on first.
DIY Opt-Out Guide: Top 15 Data Brokers
Step-by-step opt-out process for Whitepages, Spokeo, BeenVerified, FastPeopleSearch, Radaris, and 10 more.
Social Media Hardening — Platform by Platform
Privacy settings that actually matter on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Reddit.
How to Remove Yourself From Google Search Results
When Google will remove personal info, how to submit requests, and what to do when it says no.
Email & Phone Exposure Cleanup
Finding where your email and phone appear, suppression options, alias strategies, and VoIP alternatives.
Password, MFA & Recovery Settings Checklist
The accounts that matter most, how to set MFA properly, and why recovery settings are your biggest vulnerability.
Username & Handle Trail: What Connects You
How reused usernames and handles create cross-platform identity trails — and how to break them.
Breach Exposure: What To Do Next
If your email appeared in a breach dataset: how to assess the actual risk, what to change, and in what order.
Track 3: Advanced Privacy & Threat Response
Advanced separation, doxxing response, and active-threat playbooks.
Identity Separation: Building a Private Self
How to create clean public/private separation — separate emails, handles, addresses, and personas that don't cross-link.
Doxxing Response Playbook
Step-by-step: what to do in the first 24 hours, how to document, what to report, and what not to do.
If You're Being Actively Targeted: What Comes First
Harassment, stalking, targeted threats — priority actions before, during, and after an active situation.
Separation Safety: Leaving a Relationship
Digital steps to take before, during, and after leaving — shared accounts, device access, location sharing, and location clues.
Creator Identity Separation
How to maintain a public creator presence without exposing your private identity — handle separation, donation link safety, and impersonation defense.
Family Privacy Playbook
Children's gaming usernames, school location clues, parent-child account links, and device safety settings.
Advanced Breach Response
When basic password changes aren't enough: credential stuffing, session hijacking, and multi-account breach patterns.
Permanent Removal Tracker: What Sticks
Which removals hold, which reappear, how to track them on a schedule, and when to escalate.
Unlock the full curriculum.
Account Compromise Triage unlocks Track 2. Follow-up cleanup or monitoring is recommended only when your report findings justify it.