Privacy Guide
Practical privacy education — how data brokers operate, how they collect your information, and what you can do to protect yourself and your family.
39 articles
How to Turn Off Location Tracking on Your Phone
A complete guide to turning off location tracking on iPhone and Android, limiting location data collection, and protecting your precise whereabouts.
How to Opt Out of Data Brokers in California (2026 DROP Guide)
A 2026 guide to California's Delete Act, the DROP platform, and how California residents can remove their data from data brokers with a single request.
How to Protect Your Privacy While Traveling
A complete 2026 guide to protecting your privacy while traveling. Airport tech, hotel Wi-Fi, border crossings, and how to keep your data safe on the road.
Privacy Laws in New York: What You Need to Know
A 2026 guide to the New York SHIELD Act, the proposed New York Privacy Act, and how to protect your personal data as a New York resident.
Privacy Laws in Florida: What You Need to Know
A 2026 guide to the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR), opt-out rights for Florida residents, and how to protect your personal information online.
Privacy Laws in Texas: What You Need to Know
A complete 2026 guide to the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA), your consumer rights, and how to opt out of data collection in Texas.
How to Opt Out of Data Brokers in Texas
Texas residents can use the TDPSA to remove their personal data from brokers. Here's a complete step-by-step guide to reclaiming your privacy in the Lone Star State.
How to Protect Your Privacy From Stalkers
Being stalked is terrifying. Here's a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to erasing your digital footprint and making yourself harder to find.
How to Protect Your Privacy on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a privacy minefield. Here's how to adjust every setting, limit recruiter spam, and keep your profile useful without exposing your personal life.
Privacy Guide for Domestic Violence Survivors
A trauma-informed, practical privacy guide for survivors escaping an abusive partner. Learn how to vanish from data brokers, hide your address, and stay safe.
Privacy Guide for Journalists
Journalists face unique privacy threats—from hostile governments to angry readers. Here's how reporters protect their sources, their families, and themselves.
How to Opt Out of AI Data Collection
Learn how to stop AI companies from using your personal data for training. Step-by-step opt-out guides for ChatGPT, Google, Meta, and more.
How to Protect Your Privacy When Buying a Home
Learn how buying a home exposes your personal information and what steps you can take to protect your privacy during a real estate purchase.
Privacy Guide for Seniors
A comprehensive privacy guide for seniors and older adults. Learn how to protect your personal information and stay safe online.
Privacy Guide for College Students
Essential privacy tips for college students. Learn how to protect your personal information, social media accounts, and digital identity.
Privacy Guide for Real Estate Agents
Essential privacy tips for real estate agents. Learn how to protect your personal information and client data from exposure online.
Privacy Laws in California: What You Need to Know
Understand your privacy rights under California's CCPA and CPRA. Learn how to exercise your data rights and protect your information.
How to Protect Your Privacy on Dating Apps
Learn how to stay safe on dating apps while protecting your personal information. Essential privacy tips for online dating in 2026.
How to Protect Your Privacy as a Public Figure
Essential privacy protection strategies for public figures, politicians, executives, and anyone with a public profile. Stay safe online.
How to Remove Negative Search Results From Google
Learn proven strategies to remove or suppress negative search results from Google. Protect your online reputation with this actionable guide.
How to Remove Your Information From Public Records
Learn how to remove or limit your personal information in public records, from court filings to property deeds and voter registration.
How to Hide Your Home Address Online
Your home address is probably far more exposed online than you realize. Learn the practical steps to remove it from data brokers, public records, and more.
How to Remove Old Accounts You No Longer Use
Abandoned online accounts are a hidden privacy and security risk. Learn how to find, delete, and manage old accounts to protect against data breaches.
How to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising
A comprehensive guide to opting out of targeted advertising across Google, Facebook, Apple, and industry-wide ad tracking networks.
How to Remove Court Records From the Internet
Guide to removing or suppressing court records from Google search results, data broker sites, and background check databases online.
How to Remove Your Email Address From the Internet
Practical guide to finding and removing your email address from data brokers, people search sites, breached databases, and other online sources.
How to Make Your Phone Number Private
Learn how to make your phone number private by hiding caller ID, removing it from data brokers, using secondary numbers, and adjusting privacy settings.
How to Remove Yourself From Google Search Results
Learn how to remove your personal information from Google search results using official tools, removal requests, and data broker opt-outs.
How to Protect Your Privacy on Social Media
Learn how to lock down your privacy settings on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and TikTok to keep your personal data safe.
How to Protect Your Privacy After a Divorce
Essential steps to secure your digital life, protect your personal information, and regain privacy after going through a divorce.
How to Remove Your Phone Number From the Internet
A comprehensive guide to finding and removing your phone number from data brokers, search engines, social media, and other online sources.
How to Protect Your Privacy When Working From Home
Practical tips for remote workers to protect personal privacy, secure home networks, and separate work and personal digital lives.
How to Delete Your Digital Footprint
A step-by-step guide to auditing and removing your personal data from the internet — social media, data brokers, old accounts, and your Google history.
How to Protect Your Children's Privacy Online
Learn how to protect your children's digital privacy — from COPPA rights and platform settings to freezing their credit and blocking data brokers.
How to Remove Mugshots From the Internet
A practical guide to removing mugshots from websites and Google search results, including state laws, removal steps, and what to do if charges were dropped.
How to Remove Your Address From Google Maps
Learn how to remove your home address from Google Maps, blur your house on Street View, and remove your address from Google search results.
How to Stop Robocalls and Spam Calls
Practical guide to reducing robocalls and spam calls using the Do Not Call Registry, carrier tools, call-blocking apps, and data removal strategies.
How to Remove Your Information From The Internet
A comprehensive guide to removing your personal data from data brokers and people search sites.
How Celebrities Hide Their Information Online
Discover the privacy strategies used by celebrities to protect their personal data.