Keep Safe
Keeping social media accounts private and limiting personal information is essential for protecting your online identity and digital footprint. Public profiles can expose sensitive details—such as your location, workplace, or daily routines—which fraudsters and scammers can exploit for identity theft, phishing, or manipulation. By adjusting privacy settings, avoiding oversharing, and being mindful of who can see your posts, you reduce the risk of being targeted by cybercriminals. A strong, privacy-conscious approach helps safeguard your personal security, financial well-being, and emotional safety in an increasingly digital world.
Privatise
- Tap the profile picture at the top left of the screen.
- Tap the ‘gear’ settings at the bottom.
- Tap ‘visibility’
- Scroll through each section and toggle to remove last name, profile discovery by email or phone number
- Change profile photo only seen by connections.
- Turn off exporting data.
- Turn off users being able to see your email address to ‘only visible to me’.
You can search in private mode so that others cannot see your profile.
Your data should now be unsearchable.
Temporarily Deactivate
- Log in from a computer or the app.
- Click your profile picture in the top left corner.
- Select ‘Settings’ at the bottom.
- Click Account Preferences
- Scroll to ‘Account Management’
- Choose ‘Hybernate account’.
Your LinkedIN profile can be re-activated when you are ready.