Privacy settings
The controls that decide who can see what you post.
Learn it through a story
- Riya's Locked Diary (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 4)
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Related terms
- Personal data Information about a person, like their face, voice or name.
- Privacy The right to decide who sees your information.
- Privacy by design Protecting people’s information from the very first step of building.
- Private account Only followers you approve can see what you post.
- Public account Anyone can see your posts and follow you without approval.
- Synthetically generated information India's legal term (IT Rules, 2026) for audio, images or video made or altered by AI to look real. It must be labelled.