Category: Social Media
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How To Delete All Your Tweets / X Posts – Protect Your Digital Footprint in 2025
Your X / Twitter posts, comments, quotes and reposts can make up a large portion of your digital footprint. Leaving your Twitter account history unmanaged can lead to reputational harm in your professional and personal life. If you’re a creator or public figure, it’s even more likely your old content will surface in unwanted ways. There’s…
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How To Delete Your Exes From the Internet for Valentine’s Day
Your ex’s digital ghost is probably still haunting your social media, and Valentine’s day is the perfect time for an exorcism 👻 This Valentine’s Day, give yourself the gift of a fresh start. Because nothing says “new year, new me” like deleting those cringy couple selfies from 2015. Your Ex Is Living Rent-Free in Your…
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Government Workers in the USA Redact their DEI Content: A Shift in Federal Policy
Government workers across the United States have been actively removing content supportive of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) from federal websites and communications. This widespread deletion of DEI-related material is occurring in response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders, marking a significant shift in the federal government’s approach to these initiatives. The Scope of…
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The Most Invasive Apps on Your Phone—and Why You Should Delete Them
Most apps (not Redact.dev!) want your data – it helps them in a variety of ways, to reach a simple end – make more money. Some apps are transparent about this, while others bury relevant clauses deep within their privacy policies and terms of service. With rapidly changing regulations around technology and AI, and instability…
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High School Student Discovers CloudFlare Vulnerability in Discord and Signal
A high school junior on github, hackermondev uncovered a deanonymization attack capable of determining a target’s location within a 250-mile radius—without the target ever knowing. This attack exploits caching mechanisms in content delivery networks (CDNs), such as Cloudflare, to reveal geolocation data based on the datacenters handling user requests. How the Attack WorksCloudflare – one…
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What is Necro’ing, and How Can It Impact Your Digital Footprint?
What is necro’ing? Necro’ing, derived from “necromancy,” is the act of reviving an old, inactive thread, post, or discussion by adding a new comment or reply. It’s common in forums, social media, and group chats where archived conversations resurface with new activity. Sometimes necro’ing can be helpful—adding relevant updates or continuing an unresolved discussion. However,…
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LinkedIn Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Use of Customer Data in AI Training
Update – this lawsuit has been withdrawn, as it was levelled on the basis of LinkedIn using private messages to train AI. While they did not do this, LinkedIn did automatically opt all users into AI training without getting informed consent (TechMonitor) In a recent development, Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is under legal scrutiny for allegedly disclosing…