Lion Cipher Lab
Lock down your privacy on social media
- Foundations
- Beginner
- ~1 hour
- Free · no account required
Why it matters
Your social media profile is the single richest file a stranger can build on you, and most of it was assembled from settings you never changed. Left on default, your posts, photos, friend list, birthday, hometown, workplace, and check-ins are readable by people you will never meet -- and quietly harvested by data brokers, companies that collect and sell profiles of ordinary people. Scammers use those same details to guess your passwords, answer your security questions, impersonate you to your friends, or work out when your home is empty. You do not need to delete your accounts to shut most of…
What you'll learn
- social media privacy settings
- auditing your public footprint
- controlling post and profile audiences
- managing tags and location sharing
- turning off ad and data sharing
- pruning old posts and third-party app access
- recognizing oversharing as social-engineering fuel
- doing a search-yourself check
- everyday privacy hygiene
Steps in this lab
- The plan: an hour that turns your dossier back into a locked door
- Audit what is already public -- start by searching yourself
- Tighten who can see your posts, profile, and friends
- Take control of tagging and location
- Turn off the ad and data sharing you are allowed to
- Prune old posts and disconnect forgotten apps
- Stop feeding attackers -- the oversharing that becomes social-engineering fuel
- What you just did -- and how to keep it locked