COVERT Protocol Action #5: Audit Your Social Media Accounts

<p>Audit your social-media exposure, review all your public or private social-media accounts and online profiles; check what personal information (photos, posts, bio data, connections) is visible; then remove, reduce, or restrict exposure of anything risky or unnecessary.</p><br /><p><br /></p><p>Steps to audit your social media exposure:</p><br /><p><br /></p><p>1. Make a full list of every social-media profile or public/social online account you’ve ever created (active or dormant). Include mainstream platforms and smaller/less-used ones.</p><br /><p>2. Visit each account and carefully examine what can be seen publicly: profile pictures, bio information (name, location, birthdate, contact info), past posts, comments, photos, tags, friend lists.</p><br /><p>3. Adjust privacy and visibility settings on each account so that only trusted contacts (friends/followers) can see sensitive content. Delete, lock down or hide: personal details, contact info, location data, old posts.</p><br /><p>4. Remove or deactivate any accounts you no longer use, or that you don’t want publicly visible. Dormant accounts may still leak personal data.</p><br /><p>5. Scan for “people-search” or public-record sites listing you (or old usernames/email) check what information about you is exposed outside social media.</p><br /><p>6. Periodically repeat the audit (every 3–6 months) privacy settings and platform defaults can change; content from connections (tags, shares) or old posts may re-expose you.</p><hr /><p> Hosted on Acast. See <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://acast.com/privacy" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>