Protecting an email address that is already on every list
You cannot remove an address from circulation. You can make it useless to an attacker by keeping the reply, the login and the recovery flow separate.
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Protection
One page per surface: what it is exposed to, what protects it, and what to do first.
Protection
Keeping your phone number out of the wrong hands
A phone number is the easiest thing to obtain about you and the most dangerous to lose control of, because it is also how most accounts are recovered.
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Protecting your identity without freezing your life
You cannot keep your personal data secret, so protect what can be abused with it: credit in your name, accounts you hold, and documents that prove who you are.
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Protecting the accounts that would hurt most to lose
Secure accounts in order of damage: your email first, because it can reset every other account, then anything holding money, then everything else.
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What to do when your details appear in a breach
A breach matters only where what leaked can be reused: passwords, security answers, card numbers and the links between your accounts.
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Dark web monitoring: what it can and cannot do for you
No service can remove your data from somewhere it has already been copied to. What you can do is find out what was exposed and change the parts that are still usable.
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Protecting a domain, before someone else uses it against your name
A domain is usually lost through an expired renewal, a compromised registrar account or a transfer that was never questioned — not through a technical attack.
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Reducing what you hand over, without disappearing
Every service you give data to is a place that data can leak from. The most effective privacy measure is not handing it over in the first place.
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