Cyber & IT Supervisory Forum - Additional Resources

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17.13.2 Privacy Settings & Information Link If you need added help in understanding the wide-ranging settings Instagram offers you as a user, the following Instagram help center link is extremely informative. 455 17.13.3 Disable "Resharing Posts To Stories" If you have a public profile, people can reshare your posts on their stories along with your username. While some people may not have an issue with it, here are the steps Instagram provides you the to turn this feature off. 17.13.4 Hide A Story Instagram offers different privacy settings for posts and stories. While you cannot change the privacy of individual posts, you can customize the privacy of your stories which will allow you to hide stories from specific followers.  To do so, launch Instagram Settings and tap on " Story Controls " . Select the followers from whom you want to hide stories under the " Hide story from " option.  A couple important Privacy tips for you on sharing Instagram stories, Private posts you share to social networks may be visible to the public depending on your privacy settings for those networks.  Instagram offers an example at the following link that a post you share to Twitter that was set to private on Instagram may be visible to the people who can see your Twitter posts. This is a prime example of how your Digital Exhaust can pop up in ways you least expect it. 17.13.5 Approve Tagged Posts Instagram has a separate section for tagged photos and videos. When a person tags a user, it will automatically be added to their profile, so it is better to approve tagged posts first. Once a user approves them, only then they will be added to your profile.  To enable this setting, continue to Instagram Settings and tap on " Photos of you " . From here you can disable the setting " Add Automatically " . If you would like to hide a photo or video you have been tagged in, the following link from Instagram will provide you steps to do so.  Open your Instagram Settings and scroll down and tap "Resharing to stories" and ensure you have disabled this setting.

17.13.6 Clear Instagram's Search History If you often search for a person or a hashtag, it will appear under the search tab in Instagram. 456

 To clear your search history, open Instagram Settings and tap on " Search history " .  Then on the next screen, tap on " Clear search history " .

17.13.7 Photo Metadata The start of each photo presents unique Digital Exhaust which when left unchecked, can be exploited by savvy threat actors.  It is recommended that you remove any EXIF data so you do not hand it to a third party should a data breach occur even if it is stripped from social media platforms or in texting exchanges.  In addition, it is recommended that you turn off geotagging by default.

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