Anxiety over personal data breach and constant security checks
People who discover their email in a breach feel unsafe and obsessively monitor accounts, causing stress.
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- Read about that root shell thing on the smart TVs that lets someone basically watch what you're watching without you knowing... I unplugged ours from wifi last night just to feel like I did something. Still works fine for the shows we had downloaded already. Streaming's harder without it obviously but I keep thinking about how long this could've been happening before anyone noticed. Not sure how…
- ok so i just found out apparently several of the big platforms have been quietly linking your phone number across every account you have signed into even ones you thought were separate for privacy reasons. i use a different email for like three different services specifically to keep them separate and apparently the phone number undoes all of that anyway. is there an actual way to check what's…
- Does anything actually let you see what a site like Amazon thinks it knows about you and turn pieces of it off? I poked around their new about you page out of curiosity and it listed assumptions about my income bracket and even guessed I'm pregnant, which I'm not. Now I can't stop wondering what every other site has quietly filed away. Looking for something that audits this across accounts instead…
- Maybe I'm overthinking this but I found my email in that breach list everyone's talking about and now I keep checking my bank app for no real reason... changed every password I could think of twice already and it still doesn't feel like enough. My partner says I'm spiraling over nothing but it just feels like my information is sitting out there with someone and I have no way to know who.