Digital footprint audit
What is available about you and how to tidy it: searching for yourself, listing accounts, privacy settings, old posts and app access, deleting the rest.

[ ] Search for yourself in a private window
    By different versions of your name, including old surnames and usernames. That shows what others see, not your personalised results.
[ ] List every account you have
    From your password manager, email and sign-up history. There are always more than you remember.
[ ] Check privacy settings in the services you use
    Who sees posts, who can message and find you by phone, what the public profile shows. Defaults change without you.
[ ] Review old posts
    What was fine ten years ago reads differently now. Most services offer a bulk way to limit old posts.
[ ] Check location data in photos and posts
    Home, work, children's school, regular routes. Posting in real time reveals more than people intend.
[ ] Revoke access from third-party apps
    Services you once let sign you in. Many stay connected for years and keep reading your data.
[ ] Check whether your data appeared in breaches
    And change passwords wherever they were reused. A shared password turns someone else's breach into yours.
[ ] Download your data from accounts you delete
    Photos, messages, documents. After deletion recovery is usually impossible, however much you need it.
[ ] Delete or close unused accounts
    Every unused account is a future breach. If deletion is impossible, strip the data and detach the email.
[ ] Review photos of other people and children
    Publishing them is a decision made for someone else. Asking or removing is easier than explaining later.
[ ] Separate work and personal presence
    Different accounts, addresses and privacy settings. The mixture reveals itself at the worst possible moment.
[ ] Review children's accounts together with them
    Not secretly: doing it together teaches and preserves trust. Doing it secretly teaches only better hiding.
[ ] Switch on login alerts
    In email and key services. It is the earliest signal that something has gone wrong.
[ ] Set a reminder to repeat in a year
    New accounts appear and defaults change. An annual audit keeps the footprint the one you chose.

Checklist from Unload: https://unloads.me/c/digital-footprint