GET A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC
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Explore safety measures, recovery steps, and useful references for your situation.
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A little knowledge. More confidence.Recovery tasks
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Safety measures
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Related incidents
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Scam references
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MAKE THE CONNECTIONS
See the bigger picture.
Open a topic to explore the ideas and diagrams behind everyday safety.
How the components of safety fit together
Your activities, belongings, and surroundings all play a part in safety. Prevention measures can reduce the chance of an incident. Recovery tasks help you respond when something happens.
For example, a passport stolen while sightseeing connects an activity (sightseeing), a belonging (passport), a location, and an incident (theft). The impact depends on your situation.
Open full-size diagram ↗Your accounts, emails, phones, and devices
Your accounts use email for updates and your phone or authenticator for verification. Know which devices can access each account and how you would recover access if one goes missing.
Open full-size diagram ↗The two-device setup
Keeping your main and travel devices separate can limit the impact of losing one. Review your backup and remote-wipe options before you need them.
Overview
Technical details
Open full-size diagram ↗Which devices can access your accounts?
Review the accounts and apps already signed in on each device. If someone steals your phone and knows the PIN, those active sessions may expose your accounts. Sign out when appropriate.
Open full-size diagram ↗Plan your account recovery options
List the emails and phone numbers linked to each important account. Keep backup and recovery methods available, and review which accounts depend on your main phone for verification. If that phone is lost or stolen, update those accounts.
Open full-size diagram ↗Keep your email recovery options current
Email is often the way back into your other accounts. Review recovery addresses, phone numbers, and verification options so you know what to do if your primary email or phone is unavailable.
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