Digital Hygiene

Digital hygiene is the practice of pausing, assessing, and verifying before trust or action is given in high-pressure digital interactions. It focuses on repeatable human behaviors that reduce manipulation risk—especially when urgency, authority, or emotion is present. Digital hygiene does not require technical expertise. It is a public-safety approach to protecting trust in everyday communication: calls, texts, emails, and online messages. In the SAF framework, digital hygiene is operationalized as Stop. Think. Verify. and reinforced through simple cues that make verification normal rather than awkward or "paranoid."