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How to Check What Your Period Tracker App Does With Your Data: Flo, Clue, Natural Cycles, and Safer Alternatives
A guide to understanding what Flo, Clue, and Natural Cycles collect and share, why consumer period tracker data is not covered by HIPAA, how to audit and change your app's privacy settings, and how to switch to a local-only alternative if you want stronger protection.
How to Find Out If Your Email Was in a Data Breach
A step-by-step guide to checking whether your email address has appeared in a known data breach, understanding what was exposed, securing affected accounts, and setting up free alerts so you find out immediately next time.
How to Keep Your Telehealth Appointment Private: HIPAA, Video Platforms, and What to Ask Your Provider
A guide to understanding why telehealth privacy depends on your provider's setup, which video platforms are HIPAA-compliant, what a Business Associate Agreement is, and the specific questions to ask before your next online visit with a doctor or therapist.
How to Protect Your Health Data on Fitness Trackers and Smartwatches
A step-by-step guide to understanding what your wearable collects, auditing which apps can read your health data, adjusting privacy settings on major platforms, and deleting stored health records from Fitbit, Apple Health, Garmin, and more.
How to Protect Your Personal Privacy as a Doctor, Nurse, or Healthcare Professional
A step-by-step guide for clinicians to remove their home address from the NPI registry and public licensing databases, separate professional and personal online presence, manage medical review platform profiles, and respond when targeted.
How to Remove Your Personal Information from the Internet
A step-by-step guide to removing your name, address, and phone number from Google, data broker sites, social media, and old accounts. Free methods covered first.
How to Remove Yourself from People Search Sites: Spokeo, WhitePages, BeenVerified and More
A step-by-step opt-out guide for removing your name, address, and phone number from the most widely used people search and data broker sites, including Spokeo, WhitePages, BeenVerified, Intelius, TruePeopleSearch, MyLife, and Radaris, and how to stop your information from coming back.
How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication on All Your Accounts
A practical guide to enabling two-factor authentication across your most important accounts, choosing an authenticator app over SMS codes, understanding SIM swapping, and making sure you never get locked out.
How to Stop Apps from Tracking Your Location on iPhone and Android
A step-by-step guide to auditing location permissions, disabling hidden system-level tracking features, and opting out of advertiser location tracking on both iPhone and Android. No technical knowledge required.
How to Stop Google from Tracking You
A step-by-step guide to turning off Google tracking, deleting your activity history, and opting out of ad personalization. No account deletion required.
Is Your Therapy App Actually Private? What BetterHelp, Talkspace, and AI Mental Health Apps Do With Your Data
A guide to understanding why therapy apps and AI mental health chatbots operate outside HIPAA, what BetterHelp, Talkspace, Woebot, and similar apps collect and share, how to audit your settings, and what to look for if you want stronger legal protection for your mental health data.