Data Diet

Removing Old Accounts

[This is a multi-part series. Start here.] We’ve come a long way – and we’re at the finish line! We discussed why finding old, forgotten accounts is important, we learned several ways to find all of our online accounts, and we’ve made sure they were secure. There’s only one step left in our Data Diet: […]

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Securing Old Accounts

[This is a multi-part series. Start here.] In the previous parts of this series, we’ve explained why finding old accounts is so important and then helped you build an exhaustive list of all your online accounts, including long-forgotten ones. Now it’s time to make sure those accounts are secure and take stock of the data

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Find Old Accounts (Part 2)

[This is a multi-part series. Start here.] In our quest to clean up and secure our long-forgotten online accounts, we’ve already covered the easy stuff. If you’re already using a password manager, you already have a list of all your accounts. And as we said in the previous article, if you’re not yet using a

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Find Old Accounts (Part 1)

[This is Part 2 of a multi-part series. Start here.] As we discussed in the introductory post, you likely have dozens if not hundreds of online accounts – many of which you may have forgotten about. We want to make a definitive list of all your online accounts so we can make sure they’re secure.

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Data Diet: Introduction

Many of us are carrying around some serious digital baggage. In this blog series, I’m going to help you trim the fat – a data diet, if you will. And in the process, improve both your privacy and your security. Digital Baggage The world wide web is over 30 years old now. The internet as

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