Privacy is Dying

Here’s the online safety tips & tools we mention:

• If you’re totally new to this, and regardless of what you plan on doing online, try out: 

  • Firefox

  • DuckDuckGo

  • 2-factor authentication on your email/social media

  • TOR or another VPN

  • Signal, Telegram, or another end-to-end encrypted chat tool

• If you’re going to a protest, disable Touch ID and Face ID

• If you’re going to a protest, don’t dress distinctively

• Turn off your location services – generally, but especially if you’re going to a protest

• Scrub any sensitive images you post online, if you decide to share them. Be aware that painting over identifying information may be better than blurring/pixellating!

• Sharing screenshots of sensitive images rather than the originals will also get rid of metadata, which is data that’s attached to images and includes location

• BONUS: If you choose to say something incriminating online, typ1ng l1k3 th1$ on an otherwise public platform doesn’t work – symbols will not dodge regex models, a tool of online wording moderation (basically the same tool that feeds word search systems)

Further Reading

Adrian Jade Matias Bell Instagram, Bandcamp

Official info on the Earn It Act here, Section 230 here

Joe Mullin - The New EARN IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech

Matthew Rozsa - Farewell to privacy: Lindsay Graham unveils a bill that would make encryption useless

Nadeem Unuth - What is End-to-End Encryption?

Riana Pfefferkorn - The Earn It Act: How to Ban End-To-End Encryption Without Actually Banning It

Mike Godwin - Why Internet Advocates Are Against the Anti–Sex Trafficking Bill (FOSTA-SESTA)