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Doxxing: Tips To Protect Yourself Online & How to Minimize Harm

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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItTake a look at the information that is already publicly available about you online.Identify who you can trust with your secrets.Read up on the policies your online accounts have.Check how “fingerprintable” your browser is with our tool .adding our install-and-forget tracker blocking tool,using andlook at what information you shareDecide which accounts to lock or temporarily deactivate if you’re being doxxed.Have a spreadsheet template handy to record incidents as they happenShare ItWith the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs reversing long-standing rights to abortion access, workers and volunteers for reproductive health clinics must reevaluate the risks they face (also known as a ) and take steps to safeguard their personal information–including information they have submitted to the government. In...The ad identifier - aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android - is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices. Disabling it will make it substantially harder for advertisers and data brokers to track and profile you, and will limit the amount of your personal information...On Tuesday, that data broker SafeGraph was selling location information “related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities.” This included where people came from and where they went afterwards.In response, SafeGraph to stop selling data about Planned Parenthood visitors. But it...Legislation deputizing people to find, sue, and collect damages from anyone who tries to help people seeking abortion care creates serious digital privacy and security risks for those involved in abortion access. Those targeted by anti-abortion laws can, if they choose, take steps to better protect themselves online.Being able to accurately determine your location anywhere on the planet is a useful technological trick. But when tracking isn’t done by you, but to you—without your knowledge or consent—it’s a violation of your privacy. That’s why at EFF we’ve long fought against , ,...First came tracking devices like Tiles and AirTags, marketed as clever, button-sized Bluetooth-enabled gizmos that can find your lost backpack. Then, after bad actors started using the devices to stalk or follow people, came scanning apps to help victims find out whether those same gizmos were tracking them.Such is the...Telegram has gained a reputation as the “secure” communications app in the post-Soviet states, but whenever you make choices about your digital security, it’s important to start by asking yourself, “What exactly am I securing? And who am I securing it from?” If you are in Ukraine or Russia, here...Matt Mitchell, founder of CryptoHarlem, has an exciting solution for helping undo the damage that pervasive surveillance has done to those who are most profoundly impacted by it. Join EFF as we talk with Matt—and learn more about how education, transparency, and building trust can increase privacy and safety for...EFF’s helps to automate TLS/SSL certificates for web servers—and we believe that should be a global right. Certbot is a free, open source software tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates, and is part of ...For more than , EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere browser extension has provided a much-needed service to users: encrypting their browser communications with websites and making sure they benefit from the protection of HTTPS wherever possible. Since we started offering HTTPS Everywhere, the battle to ...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItTake a look at the information that is already publicly available about you online.Identify who you can trust with your secrets.Read up on the policies your online accounts have.Check how “fingerprintable” your browser is with our tool .adding our install-and-forget tracker blocking tool,using andlook at what information you shareDecide which accounts to lock or temporarily deactivate if you’re being doxxed.Have a spreadsheet template handy to record incidents as they happenShare ItWith the U.S. Supreme Court's...

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Daly Barnett is a staff technologist at the EFF. She is also an artist, activist, and community organizer. Before arriving to EFF, she was the founder of t4tech, a trans forward tech collective based in NYC. She is also a part of Hacking Hustling, a sex workers advocacy organization, where her title is Witch.

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