Digital Footprint Audit Checklist
A once-a-year sweep to close the old accounts, permissions, and passwords quietly leaking your data.
Your data leaks from the accounts you forgot about
Every service you've ever signed up for still holds your data — the shopping site from 2016, the app you used once, the forum you abandoned. Each is a login that can be breached, a set of permissions you never revoked, and a copy of your email and password sitting in someone else's database. Most large breaches expose credentials from services people don't even remember creating.
Nobody does this cleanup because it feels endless and there's no obvious place to start. A structured checklist turns a vague sense of exposure into a finite, one-afternoon task you can repeat every year.
Step by step
- Download the PDF and set aside an afternoon once a year — put it in your calendar as a recurring reminder.
- Work top to bottom through the 30 points, ticking each as you go so you always know where you stopped.
- Start with accounts and passwords, then move through app permissions, social privacy settings, and data brokers.
- Delete or deactivate anything you no longer use, and turn on two-factor authentication everywhere it's offered.
- Note your finish date at the top so next year you can see exactly what's changed.
Anyone who has been online for more than a few years
People who want to shrink their attack surface, reduce spam and data-broker exposure, and take back control of accounts they've long since forgotten.
- A 30-point annual audit checklist
- Old and unused account cleanup
- Password hygiene and 2FA coverage
- App and third-party permission review
- Social media and search privacy settings
- Data-broker opt-out prompts
- Print-friendly PDF you can reuse every year
Shrink your footprint in one afternoon.
You can't protect data that a hundred forgotten accounts are still holding. Close them down, one checklist item at a time.
Get the checklist ($5.90) →One-time download · No account required · Print-friendly PDF