Inventory accounts, review permissions and recovery settings, verify exports, and track privacy changes without sharing credentials.
Start with email, financial services, cloud storage, social accounts and devices you own or manage. Record service names, account purpose, review status and the location of official settings. Keep private identifiers out of the working notes.
Open each service through a trusted address. Review sessions, connected apps, recovery methods and MFA or passkeys. Revoke access you can identify as unnecessary and investigate unfamiliar activity through the provider.
Review app permissions, public profiles, shared links, ad settings and location access. Check the actual audience on representative files or posts after changing a setting.
Identify records you must keep, request an export through the service and open representative files outside that account. Check whether other logins, purchases or subscriptions depend on the account before following the official deletion process.
Verify important privacy settings from the appropriate viewer account and revisit unresolved requests. Record the review date, outcome and next action. If there is evidence of compromise, use the service recovery route and the relevant local identity-theft support.
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The FTC recommends protecting accounts and using appropriate recovery steps when personal information is misused. Choose recovery channels for your provider and jurisdiction.
Google documents that downloading data does not delete it, and that changes between request and archive creation may not be included. Verify the provider’s export coverage before deletion.
Record actions without collecting secrets.
| Check | Evidence to keep |
|---|---|
| Service and scope | What account or data category was reviewed |
| Access change | Permission removed or retained, with reason |
| Verification | What the intended viewer can now see |
| Follow-up | Outstanding request and next review date |
Email and password-manager access can affect many other accounts; review these early.