Path 09: Digital Privacy & Personal Security — KashSec Academy

A full path on protecting yourself, not just systems — your digital footprint, VPNs, browser tracking, secure messaging, identity theft, and a complete personal security audit. 14 free lessons, beginner level, starting with "Your Digital Footprint"

Level: Beginner · 14 lessons · Free, no account needed.

Lessons in this path

1. Your Digital Footprint — What you leave behind online, and why it enables spear phishing.
2. Social Media Privacy & Oversharing — Aggregation risk in practice — real-time location, metadata photos, and hidden security answers.
3. VPNs Explained — What a VPN genuinely protects against — and what it doesn't.
4. Browser Privacy — Third-party cookies, fingerprinting, and why incognito mode isn't a privacy tool.
5. Privacy-Focused Tools & Alternatives — Real tools — browsers, search engines, messaging, VPNs — matched honestly to their tradeoffs.
6. Secure Communications — End-to-end encryption vs. encrypted-in-transit, and what metadata still reveals.
7. Device & Location Privacy — How your phone reveals location beyond GPS, and the app-permission habits that matter.
8. Data Broker Opt-Outs — The industry compiling your public data into purchasable profiles, and how to push back.
9. Identity Theft Protection — Credit freezes, monitoring, and a concrete response checklist.
10. Privacy Laws & Your Rights — GDPR, CCPA, and how to actually exercise your legal data rights.
11. Privacy Settings Audit — A structured, repeatable audit of your real accounts.
12. Protecting Family & Children's Privacy — Sharenting, COPPA, and applying deliberate choice on someone else's behalf.
13. Deleting Your Digital Footprint — A practical, prioritized cleanup process, tying this whole path together.
14. Personal Security Capstone Lab — A complete personal security review, start to finish.