Jun 26 2024 12 mins 3
In this episode, we outline how to build a shared set of practices that limit the police's ability to target individuals and extract information about our movements, without curbing our ability to bring more people in.
1:10 - The “two nevers”: information you should never share
1:30 - How police surveil protests and what you can do to protect yourself
2:30 - The difference between Signal and WhatsApp
3:00 - What kind of information police can collect at protests and how they do it
3:57 - How to make your device more secure in case of arrest
4:50 - Phone locking and access
6:50 - Practicing good information hygiene
8:03 - What to think about if you’re sharing info before an action or protest
9:45 - What to think about if you’re sharing info during/after an action or protest
10:36 - Identifying information to look out for
10:48 - Documenting the context of an escalation and what to do with it
11:40 - Why is this important?
Further reading:
- Tips, Tools and How-Tos for Safer Online Communications (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- Secure Communication (Freedom of the Press Foundation)
- Two-Factor Authentication for Beginners (Freedom of the Press Foundation)
- What is a Passphrase (Malware Bytes)
- Digital Safety Kit (Committee to Protect Journalists)
