Harman Kamboj

🙏

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Your smart TV is probably watching you back. Most run something called ACR, which samples what is on screen and reports it for ad targeting. It sits under privacy settings, usually called viewing information. Turn it off. The TV works exactly the same after.

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Quick one people miss: Venmo makes your payment history public by default, so anyone can see who you paid and when. Open Settings, go to Privacy, set it to Private, and switch Past Transactions to Private too. Takes about 20 seconds.

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

One spam habit that backfires: hitting "unsubscribe" on junk from a sender you don't recognize. With real companies it works fine. But scammers use that click to confirm your address is live, so you get more, not less. Never signed up? Just mark it as spam and move on.

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Type your email into https://t.co/ZDhx7GN7Sa. It shows which of your old accounts leaked your password in a data breach. If yours turns up, change that password everywhere you reused it, starting with your email. Takes about a minute. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Your Amazon wish list is probably public. Anyone who finds it can see what you want, and sometimes your name and city. Open Amazon, go to Your Lists, and set them to private. While you're there, turn off browsing history too. Two minutes, quietly done. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Most people never see this one. Facebook logs what you do on other apps and sites, not just on Facebook itself. Go to Settings, then Off-Facebook Activity. You can view the list, clear it, and turn off future tracking. It is how those eerily specific ads happen. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

A quick one most people miss: your lock screen probably shows the contents of texts and emails before you even unlock the phone. Anyone who glances at it can read them. Turn on hide previews so only the sender shows until you unlock. Two taps. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Open your Google account Location History, also called Timeline. If it's on, Google has quietly kept a map of nearly everywhere you've been for years. Turn it off, then set auto-delete to clear what's saved. One of the most detailed records of your life, gone. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Before you share a photo, know that most phones stamp the exact GPS spot into the file. Post it straight from your camera roll and you can quietly reveal where you live. Turn off location for the camera app, or use your phone's share-without-location option. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

A privacy check most people never run: open your email or social account's security page and look at active sessions, the list of devices still signed in. An old phone, a friend's laptop, a library computer from years ago. One button signs them all out. Two minutes. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Search your own name. If your home address shows up on a people-search site, Google's free Results about you tool can get those pages removed, and it'll alert you when new ones appear. One of the few set-and-forget privacy wins. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

The phone permission people forget: Contacts. Grant it to a random app or game and you hand over your friends' names and numbers too, and they never agreed to that. Keep it on only for your actual phone and messaging apps. Takes a minute to check. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

A scam that catches careful people: someone calls sounding official and asks you to read back the code that just hit your texts. That code is your login code, and they're signing in right now. No real company asks you to say a security code. Codes get typed by you, never spoken.

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

If you've had Facebook for years, your old posts are probably still public. One setting, Limit Past Posts, flips them all to friends-only in a single click. Open Settings and search "limit." Ten seconds, and years of oversharing quietly close up. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Weekend privacy check: open your phone's app permissions and look at what still has microphone and camera access. Most apps asked once and never needed it again. Switch off the ones that don't fit. Five minutes, and a few apps lose access they were quietly sitting on.

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Saturday privacy win: the accounts you forgot about are most likely to leak you. Dead sites get breached more, not less, since nobody maintains them. https://t.co/Vay2wO2kD5 has direct deletion links for thousands of sites. Pick five and delete them. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Every company you hand your email to either sells it or leaks it. Gmail's + trick helps: if your address is [email protected], use [email protected] for signups. Mail still reaches you, but when spam arrives addressed to you+ikea, you know exactly who sold you out. #privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

If your two-factor codes still arrive by text, that's the weak spot. SIM swap scams target exactly that.

Move your important logins (email first, then your bank) to an authenticator app. Same six digit codes, but no phone number for anyone to hijack.

#privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Your phone hands every app the same advertising ID, so they can quietly compare notes and build one profile of you.

iPhone: Settings, Privacy & Security, Tracking, turn off "Allow Apps to Request to Track."
Android: Settings, Privacy, Ads, delete advertising ID.

#privacy

[Harman Kamboj @radeggCom]

Monday privacy win: open your Google Account, go to Security, and find "Your connected apps and services." Most people spot old apps they forgot they ever logged into. Revoke anything you don't use anymore. Takes about five minutes. #privacy