1) if you can afford it, take a burner phone w you; leave main phone at home.
This will ensure your info is safe on the main phone, & if anyone tries to geotrack, your main phone isn't present there.
This also protects your phone from being confiscated in case arrests happen.
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🧵 Attending a protest? These tips are useful to keep yourself and others around you safe:
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2. Only save emergency contacts in your (potentially burner) phone who you can immediately inform in case arrests or violence erupt. Also a good idea to write these numbers somewhere on your arm or inside of your shirt where they can't be seen or erased.
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3. Don't record content directly from the camera. Instead put phone on airplane mode, open camera & then record screen. This will help reduce the amount of metadata linked to your photo. For remaining metadata, use an exif cleaner before uploading photo/video online.
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4. Don't livestream or upload content directly from the protest. This will not only jeopardise your safety, but also of others at the protest.
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5. When you do upload content after the protest, blur visible faces and any other identifiable features in the photos/video. People's faces, clothes, tattoos, scars, marks etc. You can use blurring tools or draw over faces within your gallery.
Respect others' privacy & safety.
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6. Encrypt your phone + sign out of all your accounts and remove saved passwords before going to the protest, so if your phone gets stolen or lost, your data is safe.
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7. Wear clothes that you don't want to be seen wearing again. Cover any tattoos & scars. So in case someone tries to identify people afterwards, they can't identify you. Consider wearing clothes with no prints or patterns. And of course, wear a mask.
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8. Most importantly, look out for each other. We're all in this together, and no one is safe until all of us are safe.
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