EFF Surveillance Self-Defense review
When a public profile helps people find your work, it can also point to details you shared years ago and forgot about. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense guide gives you somewhere practical to start. I’d open Digital Footprint first and save Your Security Plan for the accounts that matter most.
What can people see from a public profile?
EFF’s Digital Footprint guide suggests going through old accounts and looking at what each one exposes. For a creator, I’d start with a handle I’ve used more than once. An old forum profile and a current booking page may look unrelated until you notice that both list the same email address. Checking what a signed-out visitor can see gives you a short list of details to review. Removing a result from a search engine still leaves the original page online, so check the page itself when you can.
Which account would hurt most to lose?
Your Security Plan starts with what you need to protect, who could get access and what would happen if they did. I’d put my main email near the top if I use it to recover several other accounts. Mullvad VPN covers a separate question about your internet connection. A public email address stays visible to anyone who opens the page where it appears.
Anabel’s take
I’d spend the first ten minutes on the oldest profile I could still find. Checking one real page is a better use of that time than opening every guide in the library.