Cyber & IT Supervisory Forum - Additional Resources

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 You can also find additional information on how to check safety and security settings as well as How to protect your personal information . 495

17.17.1 Sharing Your Personal Information When someone else Tweets your personal information such as in a doxing attack, you have the right to report the individual to Twitter. 496  However, if it is discovered that your personal information is publicly available, Twitter may not request that your information be removed. 497  Twitter also provides a link to assess ways to protect your personal information. 498  Below your header photo, click Edit profile .  This section will allow you to edit your Bio , Location , and Website . It should be noted that this information will be displayed publicly unless you adjust the privacy settings. 499  Next to Birth date , you have the option to click Edit . Doing so will allow you to click Remove birth date to completely remove it from your profile.  If you choose to display your birthday, you also have the choice to set the visibility for Month and day to something other than Public but leave the year as Only you . 17.17.3 Public Tweets Versus Protected Tweets When you sign up for Twitter, your Tweets are public by default meaning anyone can view and interact with your Tweets. 500  Should you choose to protect your Tweets, you can do so through your account settings . 501  Twitter provides extensive detail on how to configure settings for protecting your Tweets. If you protect your Tweets, you will receive a request when new people want to follow you, which you can approve or deny.  Accounts that began following you before you protected your Tweets will still be able to view and interact with your protected Tweets unless you block them.  Protected Tweets will not appear in third-party search engines and are only searchable on Twitter by you and your followers. 17.17.2 Your Profile  In the Twitter menu, click Profile .  Likewise, your followers may re-share links to photos that you share in a protected Tweet.  Links to photos shared on Twitter are not protected.  Anyone with the link will be able to view the content.  You can change who can tag you in a photo by visiting your Privacy and safety settings via twitter.com and Twitter for iOS or Twitter for Android apps. 17.17.5 Discoverability Anyone with your email address or phone number can search for you on Twitter using this information. 502 17.17.4 Photo Tagging Even if your Tweets are protected, you can be tagged or mentioned in a photo.

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