Digital safety
Staying safe and private online: account security, scams, privacy settings, parental controls, identity theft, harassment and stalkerware.
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- Check your data breach exposure
Explains what to do after learning an email or account was in a data breach - checking the notice is real, what was likely exposed, the steps to take now, monitoring, and signs of identity theft.
- Check an online shop is legitimate
Checks whether an online shop is likely legitimate before you buy, using domain, reviews, payment, contact, policy and pricing signals, and says what to do if you have already paid.
- Check a phone for stalkerware
Guides a careful check for stalkerware, shared accounts and location tracking on a phone, with safety planning before removing anything and pointers to specialist help.
- Check a suspicious message
Checks a suspicious email, text, call or social message for scam and phishing signs, explains each sign in plain words, and says exactly what to do next, including if you already clicked or paid.
- Digital safety advisor
Acts as a calm digital safety advisor for non-technical people who explains risks without fear, puts the few steps that matter most first, and respects privacy and autonomy.
- Lock down social media privacy
Walks through privacy settings on social accounts to control who sees posts, profile details, tags, location and contact options, platform by platform, with a short audit of what is already public.
- Plan your digital legacy
Plans what happens to your online accounts, devices, files and photos after death or incapacity, with an inventory, legacy contacts, a safe way to pass on access and clear instructions for family.
- Plan a family scam safe word
Sets up a whole-family plan against voice-clone and impostor scams, with a safe word, call-back habits, scripts for urgent money requests, a practice drill and who to call.
- Protect a relative from scams
Plans how to protect an older or vulnerable relative from scams, with the scripts they are likely to meet, safeguards that keep their independence, and a respectful conversation to have.
- Recover a hacked account
Gives ordered steps to recover a hacked email or social media account, contain the damage to linked accounts and money, warn contacts and prevent a repeat. Use as soon as you suspect a takeover.
- Reduce your online footprint
Plans reducing your personal information online by finding exposed data, removing it from people-search and data-broker sites, closing old accounts and limiting new exposure, by country.
- Respond to identity theft
Gives an ordered response plan after identity theft, with credit freezes, official reports, account checks, documentation and follow-up for your country. Use when unknown accounts or debts appear.
- Respond to online harassment
Helps someone facing online harassment document it, use block, mute and report tools, tighten privacy and get support, and points to crisis help and the police if threats or doxxing appear.
- Respond to a sextortion threat
Guides someone, often a teen or their parent, through a sextortion threat - what to do right now, why not to pay, how to keep evidence, how to report and remove images, and where to get support.
- Review app permissions on a phone
Audits a phone's app permissions such as location, microphone, camera, contacts and tracking, explains which apps truly need what, and tightens them without breaking the apps.
- Secure devices for travel
Prepares phones and laptops for a trip with backups, lock settings, two-factor that works abroad, public Wi-Fi rules, border-crossing considerations and a lost or stolen device plan.
- Secure a home Wi-Fi router
Secures a home Wi-Fi router step by step - admin password, firmware updates, encryption, WPS, remote access, a guest network and isolating smart devices - in order of impact.
- Secure your personal accounts
Walks a non-technical person through securing their accounts with a password manager, two-factor sign-in, recovery options and device basics, in priority order. Use for a security check-up.
- Set up parental controls
Sets up parental controls on phones, tablets, consoles, computers and home Wi-Fi by child age, with screen time, content, app, purchase and contact limits, and a plan to loosen them over time.
Not: securing software you build (security); fixing devices that misbehave (tech-help); legal action after a crime (legal-admin).