Definition
Privacy Audit
A systematic review of what accounts, apps, and services hold your data, so you can close, minimise, or secure each one deliberately.
A privacy audit means listing every account and app that holds your data, checking what each one collects, and deciding for each whether to keep, tighten, or delete it. It is the practical first step before any de-Googling or data-minimisation effort — you cannot reduce exposure you have not mapped.
Why it matters: most people have dozens of forgotten accounts still holding old data. An audit turns a vague sense of over-exposure into a concrete, prioritised list of fixes.
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