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Digital Hygiene
Privacy
Privacy-focused maintenance of identities, devices, and data-sharing practices.
Definition
Digital hygiene includes pruning accounts, rotating identifiers, limiting trackers, reviewing permissions, and reducing exposed personal data over time.
In plain English
Privacy-focused maintenance of identities, devices, and data-sharing practices.
Why this matters
Why it matters: Stale accounts and oversharing increase profiling, doxxing risk, and the impact of breaches.
Example
Example: Audit accounts quarterly, remove unused third-party logins, disable ad personalization, and minimize publicly visible profile fields.