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# Community Code of Conduct
**We pledge** to make our community a harassment-free experience for everyone.
**We strive** to create a positive environment, using welcoming and inclusive language, and being respectful of the viewpoints of others.
**We do not allow** inappropriate or otherwise unacceptable behavior, such as sexualized language, trolling and insulting comments, or otherwise promoting intolerance or harassment.
## Community Standards
What we expect from members of our communities:
1. **Do not spread misinformation**
We are creating an evidence-based educational community around information privacy and security, not an information home for conspiracy theories. For example, when making a claim that a certain piece of software is malicious or that certain telemetry data is privacy invasive, explain in detail what is collected and how it collected. Claims of this nature must be backed by technical evidence.
2. **Do not abuse our willingness to help**
Our community members are not free tech support. We are happy to help with specific steps for your privacy journey, if you are willing to put in effort. We are not obligated to answer endless, repetitive questions about general computer problems solvable with a simple internet search. **Do not** become a [help vampire](https://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires).
3. **Behave in a positive and constructive manner**
Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:
- Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
- Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward others.
- Focusing on what is best not just for us as overseers, but for the overall community.
- Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback within our community while growing and improving.
- Operating with a communal mindset at all times.
## Unacceptable Behavior
The following behaviors are considered harassment and are unacceptable within our community:
- Any other conduct which would reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting.
- Public and/or private harassment of any kind.
- Publishing others' private information, such as a physical address and/or an email address, without their explicit permission.
- The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind.
- Trolling, insulting and/or derogatory comments, including personal or political attacks.
## Scope
Our Code of Conduct applies within all project spaces, as well as when an individual is representing the Privacy Guides project in other communities.
We are responsible for clarifying the standards of our community and have the right to remove or alter the comments of those participating within our community, as necessary and at our discretion.
## Contact
If you observe a problem on a platform like Matrix or Reddit, please contact our moderators on that platform via chat, direct message, or any designated "Modmail" system.
If you have a problem elsewhere, or a problem that our community moderators are unable to resolve, reach out to `jonah@privacyguides.org` and/or `dngray@privacyguides.org`.
All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of reporters for all incidents.
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In addition to our core team, many other people have made contributions to the project. You can too! We're open source on GitHub, and accepting translation suggestions on [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/project/privacyguides).
[Job Openings :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:](jobs.md)
[Job Openings :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:](jobs/)
## :material-email-edit: Contact Us
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Also featured on: [Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/is-fire
## :material-history: History
Privacy Guides was launched in September 2021 as a continuation of the [defunct](privacytools.md) "PrivacyTools" open-source educational project. We recognized the importance of independent, criteria-focused product recommendations and general knowledge in the privacy space, which is why we needed to preserve the work that had been created by so many contributors since 2015 and make sure that information had a stable home on the web indefinitely.
Privacy Guides was launched in September 2021 as a continuation of the [defunct](privacytools/) "PrivacyTools" open-source educational project. We recognized the importance of independent, criteria-focused product recommendations and general knowledge in the privacy space, which is why we needed to preserve the work that had been created by so many contributors since 2015 and make sure that information had a stable home on the web indefinitely.
In 2022, we completed the transition of our main website framework from Jekyll to MkDocs, using the `mkdocs-material` documentation software. This change made open-source contributions to our site significantly easier for outsiders, because instead of needing to know complicated syntax to write posts effectively, contributing is now as easy as writing a standard Markdown document.
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ We have these requirements in regard to developers which wish to submit their pr
- Why should anyone use it over the alternatives?
- Must state what the exact threat model is with their project.
- It should be clear to potential users what the project can provide, and what it cannot. Ideally, a developer should be able to identify what [common threat(s)](../wiki/basics/common-threats/index.md) their project protects against.
- It should be clear to potential users what the project can provide, and what it cannot. Ideally, a developer should be able to identify what [common threat(s)](../../wiki/basics/common-threats/index.md) their project protects against.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ MAGIC Grants is our fiscal host, and their custom, open-source donation platform
Thank you to these organizations who significantly support Privacy Guides. (1)
{ .annotate }
1. Please contact <info@magicgrants.org> to inquire about giving. Privacy Guides reserves the right to rescind the membership of those who are unaligned with our mission or organization at any time. Organizational members have no ability to influence what content is recommended on the Privacy Guides website. Learn more about our [donation acceptance policy](donation-acceptance-policy.md).
1. Please contact <info@magicgrants.org> to inquire about giving. Privacy Guides reserves the right to rescind the membership of those who are unaligned with our mission or organization at any time. Organizational members have no ability to influence what content is recommended on the Privacy Guides website. Learn more about our [donation acceptance policy](../donation-acceptance-policy/).
<div class="mdx-specialthanks" markdown>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ You can become an organizational member by reaching out to <info@magicgrants.org
Organizational members that choose to be recognized publicly are included in our organizational members section (above), and occasionally at other opportunities where appropriate. Organizational member links include the `rel="nofollow"` attribute: We adopted this policy to screen out potential abuse of our program and site to raise the rank of third parties in search algorithms. Unfortunately, this is a growing problem for nonprofits. This was a complex decision since we know many of the sincere supporters behind these companies, but we decided that it was the best choice for us.
Organizational members have no ability to influence what content is recommended on the Privacy Guides website. Learn more about our [donation acceptance policy](donation-acceptance-policy.md).
Organizational members have no ability to influence what content is recommended on the Privacy Guides website. Learn more about our [donation acceptance policy](../donation-acceptance-policy/).
### What is an active membership?
@@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ We use donations for a variety of purposes, including:
**Online Services**
: We host [internet services](services.md) for testing and showcasing different privacy-products we like and [recommend](../tools/_index.md). Some of them are made publicly available for our community's use (SearXNG, Tor, etc.), and some are provided for our team members (email, etc.).
: We host [internet services](../services/) for testing and showcasing different privacy-products we like and [recommend](../../tools/_index.md). Some of them are made publicly available for our community's use (SearXNG, Tor, etc.), and some are provided for our team members (email, etc.).
**Product Purchases**
: We occasionally purchase products and services for the purposes of testing our [recommended tools](../tools/_index.md).
: We occasionally purchase products and services for the purposes of testing our [recommended tools](../../tools/_index.md).
Thank you to all those who support our mission! :material-heart:{ .pg-red }
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Privacy Guides takes the ethical responsibility of making unbiased recommendations on its website very seriously.
Privacy Guides aspires to obtain funding from a wide variety of sources to reduce our dependency on any single donor. Please consider [donating](donate.md)!
Privacy Guides aspires to obtain funding from a wide variety of sources to reduce our dependency on any single donor. Please consider [donating](../donate/)!
## What we **can** accept
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- Accept donations from privacy-related companies and non-profits.
- Apply for grant programs.
- Accept free versions of software or hardware to test and review, while being mindful of possible differences in versions that could differ from a regular customer experience. ([More details](executive-policy.md#ep1-freely-provided-product-samples))
- Accept free versions of software or hardware to test and review, while being mindful of possible differences in versions that could differ from a regular customer experience. ([More details](../executive-policy/#ep1-freely-provided-product-samples))
- Accept discounted versions of software or hardware that assist our operations (for example, discounted software costs made available to non-profits).
## Restrictions on gifts
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description: Privacy Guides is looking for a video producer and host for informative privacy-related content on YouTube and other platforms.
---
[:material-arrow-left-drop-circle: Job Openings](../jobs.md)
[:material-arrow-left-drop-circle: Job Openings](../)
<div class="admonition info" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Position Closed</p>
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../jobs.md) page to learn about future opportunities.
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../) page to learn about future opportunities.
</div>
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<div class="admonition info" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Position Closed</p>
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../jobs.md) page to learn about future opportunities.
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../) page to learn about future opportunities.
</div>
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description: Privacy Guides is looking for an intern to discover and promote relevant news content on our platform, and to moderate and engage with our online communities.
---
[:material-arrow-left-drop-circle: Job Openings](../jobs.md)
[:material-arrow-left-drop-circle: Job Openings](../)
<div class="admonition info" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Position Closed</p>
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../jobs.md) page to learn about future opportunities.
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../) page to learn about future opportunities.
</div>
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ This is a 6-month contract paying $15 / hour USD, with the optional opportunity
<div class="admonition info" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Position Closed</p>
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../jobs.md) page to learn about future opportunities.
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../) page to learn about future opportunities.
</div>
@@ -3,14 +3,12 @@ title: Journalist
description: Privacy Guides is looking for a determined and focused journalist to research and write stories from the privacy and cybersecurity space on a regular basis.
---
[:material-arrow-left-drop-circle: Job Openings](../jobs.md)
[:material-arrow-left-drop-circle: Job Openings](../)
<div class="admonition info" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Position Closed</p>
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../jobs.md) page to learn about future opportunities.
</div>
> [!NOTE]
> **Position Closed**
>
> Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../) page to learn about future opportunities.
Are you passionate about privacy and cybersecurity?
@@ -26,8 +24,8 @@ Privacy Guides is a small, largely volunteer-driven nonprofit media organization
Your responsibilities will include, but arent limited to:
- Creating high-quality articles for our [knowledge base](../../wiki/basics/why-privacy-matters/index.md).
- Performing product reviews for our [reviews](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/category/reviews) section and [tool recommendations](../../tools/_index.md).
- Creating high-quality articles for our [knowledge base](../../../wiki/basics/why-privacy-matters/index.md).
- Performing product reviews for our [reviews](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/category/reviews) section and [tool recommendations](../../../tools/).
- Researching new topics to cover.
- Interviewing and fact-checking all relevant sources.
- Regular posting of high-quality, unbiased journalistic content across our platforms.
@@ -61,12 +59,10 @@ For this position, our hiring pay range falls between \$20-$25 / hour USD. The b
---
<div class="admonition info" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Position Closed</p>
Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../jobs.md) page to learn about future opportunities.
</div>
> [!NOTE]
> **Position Closed**
>
> Thank you for your interest in this position at Privacy Guides. At this time we are no longer accepting new applications, but please follow our [job openings](../) page to learn about future opportunities.
Privacy Guides is fiscally hosted by [MAGIC Grants](https://magicgrants.org), a 501(c)(3) public charity. MAGIC Grants is an equal opportunity employer. MAGIC Grants does not discriminate against any applicant or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, sexual identity, veteran status, or other protected characteristic.
@@ -15,11 +15,9 @@ Privacy Guides additionally does not warrant that this website will be constantl
## Licensing Overview
<div class="admonition danger" markdown>
The following is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the [license](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/blob/main/README.md#license).
</div>
> [!IMPORTANT]
>
> The following is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the [license](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/blob/main/README.md#license).
Unless otherwise noted, all **content** on this website is released under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/tree/main/LICENSE). This means that you can use the human-readable content on this website for your own project, as long as you give appropriate credit to [Privacy Guides](https://www.privacyguides.org) including a link where technically possible, and you release your project under the same license. You may not do so in any way that suggests Privacy Guides endorses you or your use. You **may not** use the Privacy Guides brand trademarks in your own project without express approval from this project. Privacy Guides's brand trademarks include the "Privacy Guides" wordmark and shield logo.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ BurungHantu also made a [twitter post](https://twitter.com/privacytoolsIO/status
## PrivacyTools.io Now
As of September 25th 2022 we are seeing BurungHantu's overall plans come to fruition on privacytools.io, and this is the very reason we decided to create this explainer page today. The website he is operating appears to be a heavily SEO-optimized version of the site which recommends tools in exchange for financial compensation. Very recently, IVPN and Mullvad, two VPN providers near-universally [recommended](../tools/services/vpn/index.md) by the privacy community and notable for their stance against affiliate programs were removed from PrivacyTools. In their place? NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, and hide.me; Giant VPN corporations with untrustworthy platforms and business practices, notorious for their aggressive marketing and affiliate programs.
As of September 25th 2022 we are seeing BurungHantu's overall plans come to fruition on privacytools.io, and this is the very reason we decided to create this explainer page today. The website he is operating appears to be a heavily SEO-optimized version of the site which recommends tools in exchange for financial compensation. Very recently, IVPN and Mullvad, two VPN providers near-universally [recommended](../../tools/services/vpn/index.md) by the privacy community and notable for their stance against affiliate programs were removed from PrivacyTools. In their place? NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, and hide.me; Giant VPN corporations with untrustworthy platforms and business practices, notorious for their aggressive marketing and affiliate programs.
==**PrivacyTools has become exactly the type of site we [warned against](https://web.archive.org/web/20210729205249/https://blog.privacytools.io/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-reviews) on the PrivacyTools blog in 2019.**== We've tried to keep our distance from PrivacyTools since the transition, but their continued harassment towards our project and now their absurd abuse of the credibility their brand gained over 6 years of open-source contributions is extremely troubling to us. Those of us actually fighting for privacy are not fighting against each other, and are not getting our advice from the highest bidder.
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---
The **Guides and Tools for Privacy Activists** project from [*Privacy Guides*](../about/_index.md) offers a new way to empower the digital rights community.
The **Guides and Tools for Privacy Activists** project from [*Privacy Guides*](../about/) offers a new way to empower the digital rights community.
This section contains information to help you become a better defender of privacy rights, both for individuals and organizations.
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[:fontawesome-solid-toolbox:{ .toolbox-button-icon } Privacy Activist Toolbox](toolbox/_index.md){ .toolbox-button .toolbox-bg }
[:fontawesome-solid-address-card:{ .toolbox-button-icon } DPA Directory](legal/dpa-directory.md){ .toolbox-button .dpadirectory-bg }
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title: "Data Protection Authorities"
description: The DPA Directory is a tool to help you find the principal consumer privacy law in your region, the authority mandated to enforce it, and how to report violations.
#icon: fontawesome/solid/address-card
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<small>Last update: 2026-03-30</small>
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Additionally, this table provides information about each law, authority, contact information for questions, and a link to place a complaint for violation of the law with each authority.
<div class="admonition info" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">More information on privacy laws and reporting violations</p>
- For more information on how to find a specific privacy law that might not be listed here, and what to look for when reading it, consult the Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to [Know Your Privacy Laws](../toolbox/tip-know-your-privacy-laws.md).
- For more information on how to proceed when reporting a privacy law violation, consult the Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to [Report Privacy Violations](../toolbox/tip-report-privacy-violations.md).
</div>
> [!TIP]
> **More information on privacy laws and reporting violations**
>
> - For more information on how to find a specific privacy law that might not be listed here, and what to look for when reading it, consult the Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to [Know Your Privacy Laws](../../toolbox/tip-know-your-privacy-laws/).
> - For more information on how to proceed when reporting a privacy law violation, consult the Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to [Report Privacy Violations](../../toolbox/tip-report-privacy-violations/).
## Scope and limitations
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- Remember that your data *could* be protected by a privacy regulation that isn't listed here. This will depend on the region, circumstances, and type of data involved.
<div class="admonition warning" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Privacy warning</p>
When sharing personal information with a DPA, keep in mind this information could be shared with the subject of the complaint, and/or displayed publicly. Make sure to consult your DPA's privacy notice first, or ask anonymously how your complaint data might be shared before sending any sensitive information.
For example, the DPA for the state of Oregon in the United States specifies that: "Any information submitted to this form is subject to Oregons Public Records Law. You may choose not to include personally identifiable data that you do not wish to be subject to public records requests."
</div>
> [!WARNING]
> **Privacy warning**
>
> When sharing personal information with a DPA, keep in mind this information could be shared with the subject of the complaint, and/or displayed publicly. Make sure to consult your DPA's privacy notice first, or ask anonymously how your complaint data might be shared before sending any sensitive information.
>
> For example, the DPA for the state of Oregon in the United States specifies that: \"Any information submitted to this form is subject to Oregons Public Records Law. You may choose not to include personally identifiable data that you do not wish to be subject to public records requests.\"
## The Directory
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description: The Privacy Activist Toolbox is a unique resource with tips for anyone interested in becoming a better privacy rights activist, or anyone who wants to start.
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The **Privacy Activist Toolbox** is a resource for anyone interested in becoming a better privacy rights activist, or anyone who wants to start advocating for privacy rights.
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### 1. Know your privacy laws
![Scale icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-laws.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Scale icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-laws.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
Being well-informed about the data protection regulations in your own jurisdiction can be a significant asset for your personal and collective battles to improve privacy, for yourself and for others. Learn more about what to look for when researching your local privacy laws.
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Learn More :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:
### 2. Report privacy violations
![Gavel icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-report.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Gavel icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-report.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
Once you become informed on your local privacy laws, get familiar with the process to report violations. Submitting an official complaint is often simple, and can have a significant impact for yourself and your community. Learn more about why and how you should report violations of your local privacy laws.
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Learn More :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:
### 1. Beware of privacy snake oil
![Poison symbol icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-snakeoil.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Poison symbol icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-snakeoil.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
In your privacy advocacy, it's essential to use and recommend tools that reliably protect privacy. For this, you need to investigate and remain highly skeptical of any dangerous or unproven marketing claims. Learn more about how to evaluate privacy claims and recommend tools that are trustworthy.
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Learn More :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:
### 2. Migrate outside the surveillance ecosystem
![Arrow pointing out of a square icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-migrate.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Arrow pointing out of a square icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-migrate.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
As privacy activists, it's important to not only support the tools and organizations with good privacy practices, but to also lead by example when it comes to moving away from the surveillance ecosystem. Learn more about why and how to move away from "Big Tech" and embrace alternatives.
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Learn More :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:
### 3. Improve your social media and build resilient communities
![Octagon icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-plant.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Octagon icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-plant.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
Commercial social media platforms represent one of the biggest sources of data exploitation. By staying active on these platforms we continue to feed the beast, and indirectly support their invasion of our privacy rights. Learn more about how to minimize your presence there, and slowly build better social networks.
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### 1. Don't stop at individual solutions, consider the collective impact
![People with radiating lines icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-expand.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![People with radiating lines icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-expand.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
When we think about our privacy, we often focus on the technical tools we can use. While this is indeed an important component, it's crucial not to lose sight of how regulations and invasive practices impact us collectively. Learn more about how to expand your perspective on data privacy.
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Learn More :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:
### 2. Keep in mind the whole landscape
![Globe icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-landscape.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Globe icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-landscape.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
Privacy isn't just about the tools, the laws, or the practices of any individual or organization. To move our society in a place where everyone benefits from privacy by default, we must consider technologies, laws, and culture holistically. Learn more about remembering to consider the whole landscape.
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Learn More :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:
### 3. Consider everyone's unique situation
![People with line over and under icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-everyone.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![People with line over and under icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-everyone.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
Everyone has different needs and faces different dangers when their personal data is exposed. To give actionable privacy advice and recommendations, it's essential to keep in mind everyone's unique situation. Learn more about better evaluating each person's threat model.
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Learn More :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:
### 1. Lift your allies up
![Two hands icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-lift.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Two hands icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-lift.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
At times, it might feel like the privacy community is niche and isolated. The battle for privacy rights is difficult, and its defenders are often scattered. This is why it's essential that we support and uplift each other at every opportunity. Learn more about how to lift your allies up and grow the movement.
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Learn More :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:
### 2. Support your privacy comrades
![Hand holding a heart icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-support.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Hand holding a heart icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-support.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
Fighting for privacy rights is a collective endeavor. You cannot do it alone. Anyone around you contributing is fighting the same battle by your side. This battle can be difficult and isolating at time. This is why it's critical to care for each other. Learn more about how you can support your privacy comrades.
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ Learn More :material-arrow-right-drop-circle:
### 3. Be kind to people, but be relentless with institutions
![Two hands holding a sphere icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-kind.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Two hands holding a sphere icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-kind.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
Kindness is essential for privacy advocates. To grow our movement, we must meet people from a place of camaraderie. People don't change their mind by being berated. However, this isn't true for institutions. Learn more about how to integrate kindness in your work, while being relentless with institutions.
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### 1. Start alliances, not wars
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The privacy community consists of a patchwork of individuals and organizations that sometimes hold quite different views. When these divergences lead to infighting, we need to ask how these internal wars are impacting our community negatively. Learn more about how to start alliances instead of wars.
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### 2. Value allies with expertise complementary to yours
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In privacy, like everywhere else, diversity is a strength. If you want your community to have a broad understanding of threat models, and be able to fight on multiple levels, you need to value a diversity of expertises. Learn more about recognizing, respecting, and retaining experts with skills different to yours.
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### 3. Give credit where credit is due
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To succeed, we must support each other. A good way to do this is to never forget to give credit where credit is due. When another advocate or organization says something you agree with, boost them up, spread their reach, and thank them publicly. Learn more about making your allies feel seen and valued.
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### 1. Welcome beginners
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For our privacy rights movement to grow, we must bring more people in. To accomplish this, it's fundamental to discuss privacy in ways that are accessible to newcomers who aren't familiar with basic concepts yet. Learn more about improving your advocacy work to make it more approachable to beginners.
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### 2. Keep your posts and community inclusive
![Heart with plus sign icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-inclusivity.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
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Inclusivity is not only the right thing to do, it's also essential to grow our movement. If we want privacy rights to succeed, it's imperative that we build communities where *everyone* feels safe and welcomed, regardless of who they are. Learn more about keeping your communications and communities inclusive.
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### 3. Be mindful of accessibility
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Accessibility is indispensable to inclusivity, and should always be a priority in our work. To make our privacy communities welcoming to all, accessibility cannot be an afterthought. We must integrate it in our practice from the start. Learn more about improving the accessibility of your privacy work.
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### 4. Make it cute
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If you are developing a privacy-focused application or website, do not neglect the design aspect of it. This is a common mistake that can have a significant negative impact on adoption by a general audience. Learn more about making your design appealing and accessible to all. Make it cute!
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### 1. Refuse to participate
![Circle with x icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-refuse.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
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As privacy advocates and activists, it's important to be a voice for resistance and take a stand against abusive practices. One substantial way to do this is to refuse to participate in privacy-intrusive requests, or use invasive software. Learn more about refusing to comply with privacy-abusive practices.
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### 2. Stay true to your principles
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If you manage a digital rights group or organization, make sure you aren't subjecting your contributors to the very privacy-invasive tech you're fighting against. Sadly, it's not rare to see communities that aren't following their own advice for internal practices. Learn more about the importance of maintaining integrity *internally* as well as externally.
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### 3. Protect your allies
![Shield with heart icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-protect.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
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Through your privacy work, be careful to never collect or share the data of others without their explicit consent. It's crucial to protect your allies' data in all that you do, whether that's individual action or organizational leadership. Learn more about safeguarding the data of your privacy comrades.
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### 1. Small actions matter
![Puzzle piece icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-small.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
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There is so much to do in the movement for better privacy rights. So much, that it's sometimes easy to feel discouraged when facing the scale of what's left to accomplish. But everything helps, and even the smallest action counts. Learn more about why every action and every victory matters, no matter how small.
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### 2. Take time to rest, but come back to fight with us
![Low battery icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-rest.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
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The battle for privacy rights will be a long one. This isn't a sprint, it's a marathon. If you want to be a good advocate, you *must* take the time to rest when needed. Burning out isn't an option, we cannot afford to lose your precious contribution! Learn more about why it's fundamental to learn to rest when you need it.
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### 1. Engage, boost, and contribute
![Megaphone icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-engage.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
![Megaphone icon](./icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-engage.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
Once you have the knowledge, motivation, and energy, it's time to act! Perhaps you've read all of these tips, or read through our Knowledge Base already! But you don't need to know that much about privacy to start contributing. Learn more about how to start being a privacy activist.
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### 2. Level up! Assemble and organize
![Raised fist icon](../../assets/img/activism/icons/icon-tips/icon-tips-organize.webp){class="toolbox-tip-icon"}
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If you've been a privacy advocate for a while, maybe it's time to level up and grow as a leader in your community. Becoming a leader can mean starting a local group, or initiating bigger projects online. Learn more about how to become a *good* leader in the privacy rights movement.

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title: Be Kind to People, But Be Relentless With Institutions
description: Kindness and patience are essential qualities for privacy advocates. To grow our movement, we must meet people from a place of camaraderie.
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Kindness and patience are essential qualities for privacy advocates. To grow our movement, we must meet people from a place of camaraderie. People don't change their mind by being berated. However, this isn't true for institutions.
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Furthermore, aggression is a horrible strategy to bring more people to your cause, which should be your ultimate goal as a privacy rights advocate and activist.
Instead, be gentle and [develop your empathy skills](https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-empathy-2795562). Write from a place of compassion, to gradually attract more and more [new people](tip-welcome-beginners.md) to the cause.
Instead, be gentle and [develop your empathy skills](https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-empathy-2795562). Write from a place of compassion, to gradually attract more and more [new people](../tip-welcome-beginners/) to the cause.
Stay patient and compassionate, even when people ask questions that might sound obvious to you. Be patient when people don't understand the first time you explain something. Happily clarify with simpler terms when needed, without being condescending.
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title: Be Mindful of Accessibility
description: Accessibility should always be a priority in our work. To make our privacy communities welcoming to all, we must integrate it in our practice from the start.
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**Accessibility** is indispensable to [inclusivity](tip-keep-your-posts-and-community-inclusive.md), and should always be a priority in our work. To make our privacy communities welcoming to all, accessibility cannot be an afterthought. We must integrate it in our practice from the start. This means making sure the languages, visuals, tools, and venues we use are accessible to as many people as possible.
**Accessibility** is indispensable to [inclusivity](../tip-keep-your-posts-and-community-inclusive/), and should always be a priority in our work. To make our privacy communities welcoming to all, accessibility cannot be an afterthought. We must integrate it in our practice from the start. This means making sure the languages, visuals, tools, and venues we use are accessible to as many people as possible.
Here's what you can do to improve accessibility for your privacy-related content and communities:
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### Beginners accessibility
[Welcoming beginners](tip-welcome-beginners.md) is crucial in all the work we do. To keep your content and events accessible to beginners, it's important to be mindful of the language you use, the ways you present content, and the places where you promote your events.
[Welcoming beginners](../tip-welcome-beginners/) is crucial in all the work we do. To keep your content and events accessible to beginners, it's important to be mindful of the language you use, the ways you present content, and the places where you promote your events.
- [x] Always explain acronyms with whole words before only using the letters only.
- [x] Be careful when using jargon, try to be explicit and use simple words and analogies.
- [x] Beware of gatekeeping. Try to stay aware of newcomers that might be quiet or isolated from the group. [Be inclusive](tip-keep-your-posts-and-community-inclusive.md) and invite them to participate.
- [x] Beware of gatekeeping. Try to stay aware of newcomers that might be quiet or isolated from the group. [Be inclusive](../tip-keep-your-posts-and-community-inclusive/) and invite them to participate.
- [x] Specify that your event welcomes beginners.
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title: Beware of Privacy Snake Oil
description: In your privacy advocacy, it's important to recommend tools that reliably protect your and other people's privacy. Learn how to evaluate privacy claims.
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In your privacy advocacy, it's essential to use and recommend tools that *reliably* protect privacy. For this, you need to **investigate and remain highly skeptical** of any dangerous or unproven marketing claims.
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## More resources
- [Tool recommendations vetted by our community (*Privacy Guides*)](../../tools/_index.md)
- [Tool recommendations vetted by our community (*Privacy Guides*)](../../../tools/_index.md)
- [Extensive guide on how to evaluate better privacy tools and organizations (*Privacy Guides*)](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/03/red-and-green-privacy-flags/)
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title: Consider Everyone's Unique Situation
description: To give actionable privacy advices, it's essential to consider everyone's situation. Learn more on how you can evaluate each person's unique threat model.
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Everyone has different needs, and everyone faces different dangers when their personal data gets exposed.
To give actionable privacy advices and recommendations, it's essential to **keep in mind everyone's situation**. There isn't a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to data privacy.
Here's how you can get better at evaluating each person's unique [*threat model*](../../wiki/basics/threat-modeling/index.md):
Here's how you can get better at evaluating each person's unique [*threat model*](../../../wiki/basics/threat-modeling/index.md):
## What is a threat model?
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## More resources
- [More detailed information on threat modeling (*Privacy Guides*)](../../wiki/basics/threat-modeling/index.md)
- [More detailed information on threat modeling (*Privacy Guides*)](../../../wiki/basics/threat-modeling/index.md)
- [Examples of common threats (*Privacy Guides*)](../../wiki/basics/common-threats/index.md)
- [Examples of common threats (*Privacy Guides*)](../../../wiki/basics/common-threats/index.md)
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title: Don't Stop at Individual Solutions, Consider The Collective Impact
description: When we think about privacy, we often focus on technical individual solutions. But it's also crucial to consider the collective impact of privacy issues.
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When we think about our privacy, we often focus on the technical tools we can use to protect it. While this is an important *component*, it's crucial not to lose sight of how regulations and invasive practices impact us collectively.
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While it might feel easier to focus on our own needs, nobody lives in a vacuum. Even if you were able to somehow protect all the data you have custody of, there is a lot of data about you that isn't under your control, and a lot of data about *others* that impact you.
Moreover, it's important to consider others in different situations. For example, even if everyone who has access to a [VPN](../../tools/services/vpn/index.md) service can stay protected from a particular issue, what about all the others? It's neither practical nor realistic to expect that *everyone* would be able to circumvent a problem by using a VPN.
Moreover, it's important to consider others in different situations. For example, even if everyone who has access to a [VPN](../../../tools/services/vpn/index.md) service can stay protected from a particular issue, what about all the others? It's neither practical nor realistic to expect that *everyone* would be able to circumvent a problem by using a VPN.
While in some cases we might want to discuss immediate individual solutions in order to mitigate some harm, we must also attack the root cause of the problem.

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title: Engage, Boost, and Contribute
description: Once you have the knowledge, motivation, and energy to fight for privacy rights, it's time to act! Learn more on what you can do to be a privacy activist.
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Once you have the knowledge, motivation, and energy, **it's time to act**! Perhaps you've read all the tips here, or have read through our [Knowledge Base](../../wiki/basics/why-privacy-matters/index.md) already! But you don't need to know that much about privacy to start contributing.
Once you have the knowledge, motivation, and energy, **it's time to act**! Perhaps you've read all the tips here, or have read through our [Knowledge Base](../../../wiki/basics/why-privacy-matters/index.md) already! But you don't need to know that much about privacy to start contributing.
The most important part is that you care about privacy rights, and want to be part of the movement to defend them.
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- [**Spread** the words of your allies.](tip-lift-your-allies-up.md) Repost social media campaigns from digital rights organizations you like, and write about it on your own platforms. Encourage people to participate if there is a call to action.
- [**Spread** the words of your allies.](../tip-lift-your-allies-up/) Repost social media campaigns from digital rights organizations you like, and write about it on your own platforms. Encourage people to participate if there is a call to action.
- **Write** about the privacy issues you care about. Inform the public with accurate information and effective ways of action to push back against invasive technologies and legislations. This can be through your social networks, personal blog, or even a book!
- [**Participate**](tip-small-actions-matter.md) in the actions organized by others. Reply positively to social media posts related to privacy rights, repost the content of your allies, sign petitions, report violations, join an online forum, and contact your representatives about privacy rights in your region of the world.
- [**Participate**](../tip-small-actions-matter/) in the actions organized by others. Reply positively to social media posts related to privacy rights, repost the content of your allies, sign petitions, report violations, join an online forum, and contact your representatives about privacy rights in your region of the world.
- [**Refuse**](tip-refuse-to-participate.md) to participate in privacy-invasive requests, and refuse to use privacy-invasive technologies as much as doable for your situation. Sometimes doing nothing can be a powerful action. Try to prioritize your privacy principles over [convenience](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/), and report on your refusal experiences on social networks and with your local communities.
- [**Refuse**](../tip-refuse-to-participate/) to participate in privacy-invasive requests, and refuse to use privacy-invasive technologies as much as doable for your situation. Sometimes doing nothing can be a powerful action. Try to prioritize your privacy principles over [convenience](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/), and report on your refusal experiences on social networks and with your local communities.
- [**Join or build** communities](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/) with people sharing your privacy values. Be a positive contributor and lift your allies up. [Support your privacy comrades](tip-support-your-privacy-comrades.md) and [ask for help](tip-take-time-to-rest.md) when you need it yourself. Look for nonprofit organizations seeking volunteers.
- [**Join or build** communities](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/) with people sharing your privacy values. Be a positive contributor and lift your allies up. [Support your privacy comrades](../tip-support-your-privacy-comrades/) and [ask for help](../tip-take-time-to-rest/) when you need it yourself. Look for nonprofit organizations seeking volunteers.
- [**Contribute** financially](../../about/donate.md) if you can. If you cannot afford to participate in time, consider donating money. There are many digital rights nonprofit organizations that could do *so much more* if only they had more funding. Offering financial support when you can is a meaningful way to contribute to the privacy rights movement.
- [**Contribute** financially](../../../about/donate/) if you can. If you cannot afford to participate in time, consider donating money. There are many digital rights nonprofit organizations that could do *so much more* if only they had more funding. Offering financial support when you can is a meaningful way to contribute to the privacy rights movement.
- **Go** to local meetups related to privacy and digital rights. Meet people who share your values in-person, and grow your network to find allies in your area.
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title: Give Credit Where Credit Is Due
description: To succeed with our movement to defend privacy rights, we must support each other. One good way to do this is to give credit where credit is due.
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To succeed in our battle, we must **support each other**. One good way to accomplish this is to never forget to give credit where credit is due. When another advocate or organization says something you agree with, boost them up, spread their reach, and thank them publicly.
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title: Improve Your Social Media and Build Resilient Communities
description: Commercial social media platforms represent one of the biggest source of data exploitation. Learn how you can build better and more resilient social networks.
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Commercial social media platforms represent one of the biggest source of data exploitation. Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and X all exploit their users' data to generate billions in profit every year. By staying active on these platforms, we continue to feed the beast and indirectly support this invasion of privacy rights.
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Moving away from large commercial platforms can be a complex process, but it's a very important one nonetheless.
[Reducing our dependence on Big Tech](tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem.md), including for social media platforms, is essential in our fight for better privacy rights.
[Reducing our dependence on Big Tech](../tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem/), including for social media platforms, is essential in our fight for better privacy rights.
Not only this allows us to stop feeding a surveillance machine that grows ever hungry for data every month, but it gives us an opportunity to build much more resilient communities, and support platforms that aren't devouring peoples' privacy.
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- [What is the Fediverse and how it's interconnected (*Stefan Bohacek* project)](https://jointhefediverse.net)
- [Social network recommendations (*Privacy Guides*)](../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md)
- [Social network recommendations (*Privacy Guides*)](../../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md)
- [Privacy and security on Mastodon (*Privacy Guides*)](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/)
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title: Keep in Mind The Whole Landscape
description: Privacy isn't just about the tools, or just about the laws, or just about the practices either. It's about all of it. Learn how to consider the whole landscape.
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Privacy isn't just about the tools, the laws, or the practices of any individual or organization. It's about *all* of that. To move our society in a place where everyone benefits from privacy by default, we must consider technologies, laws, and culture holistically.
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## The technology
Technology plays a crucial role in how we protect our digital information. Most people are already familiar with the [tools and services](../../tools/_index.md) we can use to better protect our privacy, and the ways technology can endanger our privacy rights. Technologies like encryption, for example, are essential in our connected world.
Technology plays a crucial role in how we protect our digital information. Most people are already familiar with the [tools and services](../../../tools/_index.md) we can use to better protect our privacy, and the ways technology can endanger our privacy rights. Technologies like encryption, for example, are essential in our connected world.
But if we only consider the technological aspect, it will not be enough to defend our privacy rights. When we only think and talk about technical solutions, we are missing the bigger picture, and with it, the bigger solutions as well.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Here are a few examples:
- [**Age Verification**](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/) regulations and proposals are growing around the world at a terrifying rate.
- [**Data Brokers**](../../tools/services/data-broker-removals/index.md) are incessantly exploiting our data due to weak regulations.
- [**Data Brokers**](../../../tools/services/data-broker-removals/index.md) are incessantly exploiting our data due to weak regulations.
- [**Funding cuts**](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/03/the-future-of-privacy/) from new regulations have frequently impacted negatively the organizations and privacy tools we rely on.
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title: Keep Your Posts and Community Inclusive
description: Inclusivity is essential to grow our privacy movement. If we want privacy rights to succeed, we must build communities where everyone feels safe and welcomed.
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**Inclusivity** is not only the right thing to do, it's also essential to grow our movement. If we want privacy rights to succeed, it's imperative that we build communities where *everyone* feels safe and welcomed, regardless of who they are or where they come from.
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Having a broad perspective is essential to understand the scope and impact of privacy issues, as well as the actionable solutions for diverse situations.
When people with different lived experiences and identities join our group, it expands our understanding of numerous [threat models](../../wiki/basics/threat-modeling/index.md), and allows us to adapt our message in ways that will be more inclusive.
When people with different lived experiences and identities join our group, it expands our understanding of numerous [threat models](../../../wiki/basics/threat-modeling/index.md), and allows us to adapt our message in ways that will be more inclusive.
When people from different localities join our group, this helps us to regionalize our content and communication to make it accessible to people all around the world, and expand our network. And when people with different mentalities join our group, it helps us to reach out to people with different ways of thinking more easily.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ When people from different localities join our group, this helps us to regionali
Inclusivity allows diversity to thrive, and diversity will make it easier for your group to be inclusive.
Of course, for all those benefits to happen, it's crucial that [group leaders](tip-level-up-assemble-and-organize.md) be good listeners, and actively nurture diversity and inclusivity.
Of course, for all those benefits to happen, it's crucial that [group leaders](../tip-level-up-assemble-and-organize/) be good listeners, and actively nurture diversity and inclusivity.
## Beware of gatekeeping
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- **Normalize the use of pronouns:** If you are in a leadership position, it's especially important to lead by example and display your preferred pronouns in your social media profiles, email signatures, and other relevant contexts. Encourage everyone on your team or in your group to do the same. This helps to normalize the practice, and makes a clear statement that your community is inclusive and welcoming to transgender and gender diverse people.
- **Give credit:** Make sure to appropriately [give credit](tip-give-credit-where-credit-is-due.md) where credit is due, and make people feel supported and seen. Recognition and appreciation are fundamental to inclusion.
- **Give credit:** Make sure to appropriately [give credit](../tip-give-credit-where-credit-is-due/) where credit is due, and make people feel supported and seen. Recognition and appreciation are fundamental to inclusion.
- **Prioritize accessibility:** [Accessibility](tip-be-mindful-of-accessibility.md) should never be an afterthought, it should be designed in your content and events right from the start. Make sure that your website or software follows [accessibility standards](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/), uses [alt text](https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/) everywhere you can, and ensure that your [in-person events](https://parkpeople.ca/make-your-event-accessible-and-inclusive/) are accessible and enjoyable for everyone. Reach out to people experiencing disabilities to ask how you could improve accessibility for your content and events.
- **Prioritize accessibility:** [Accessibility](../tip-be-mindful-of-accessibility/) should never be an afterthought, it should be designed in your content and events right from the start. Make sure that your website or software follows [accessibility standards](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/), uses [alt text](https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/) everywhere you can, and ensure that your [in-person events](https://parkpeople.ca/make-your-event-accessible-and-inclusive/) are accessible and enjoyable for everyone. Reach out to people experiencing disabilities to ask how you could improve accessibility for your content and events.
- **Moderate your community:** To keep your spaces inclusive, it's important to remove bad actors promptly. This is critical if you host a platform where people exchange together such as a forum, but it's also true for replies to your social media posts, your Signal groups, or your in-person gatherings. Whenever you become aware of a reply or answer that is abusive or bigoted, make sure to intervene quickly. If you neglect to moderate the community you are responsible for adequately, marginalized people targeted by these attacks will leave your community, and bad actors will prosper and multiply.

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title: Know Your Privacy Laws
description: Being well-informed about the data protection regulations in your own jurisdiction can be a significant asset in your battles for better privacy rights.
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Being well-informed about the **data protection regulations** in your own jurisdiction can be a significant asset for your personal and collective battles to improve privacy, for yourself and for others.
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If your jurisdiction is protected by one or more privacy laws, it should be relatively easy to find this information online.
To start your research, you can look at [Privacy Guides' DPA Directory](../legal/dpa-directory.md) and check if your region is listed there. If it is, you will see what is the main consumer privacy law for this region, and you can click on the link to learn more about it.
To start your research, you can look at [Privacy Guides' DPA Directory](../../legal/dpa-directory/) and check if your region is listed there. If it is, you will see what is the main consumer privacy law for this region, and you can click on the link to learn more about it.
If your region isn't listed in our DPA Directory, or if you are looking for another more specific privacy-related law, you should be able to find this information online simply using a [trustworthy search engine](../../tools/services/search-engines/index.md). Look for keywords with your location (be specific about country + states/provinces/region) and "privacy laws" or "data protection regulations."
If your region isn't listed in our DPA Directory, or if you are looking for another more specific privacy-related law, you should be able to find this information online simply using a [trustworthy search engine](../../../tools/services/search-engines/index.md). Look for keywords with your location (be specific about country + states/provinces/region) and "privacy laws" or "data protection regulations."
Always make sure to find a result that is from an official government source.
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## More resources
- [Directory of comprehensive consumer privacy laws worldwide (*Privacy Guides*)](../legal/dpa-directory.md)
- [Directory of comprehensive consumer privacy laws worldwide (*Privacy Guides*)](../../legal/dpa-directory/)
- [Map of data protection and privacy legislation worldwide (*UN Trade and Development*)](https://unctad.org/page/data-protection-and-privacy-legislation-worldwide)
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title: Level Up! Assemble and Organize
description: If you've been a privacy advocate for a while, maybe it's time to level up and grow as a leader in your community. Good leaders can benefit the whole movement.
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If you've been a privacy advocate for a while, maybe it's time to level up and **grow as a leader** in your community.
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- [x] **Learn to delegate work** and split-up tasks. Do not try to do it all by yourself. Delegating and trusting others to do the work will also help prevent activism burnout.
- [x] **Trust the members of your group** according to their unique skill sets, and reach out to them when their [unique expertise](tip-value-allies-with-complementary-expertise.md) or experience is relevant to another part of the project.
- [x] **Trust the members of your group** according to their unique skill sets, and reach out to them when their [unique expertise](../tip-value-allies-with-complementary-expertise/) or experience is relevant to another part of the project.
- [x] **Show appreciation** both in private and in public, and [give credit](tip-give-credit-where-credit-is-due.md) where credit is due. This is incredibly important to retain the dedicated members of your group, and to attract new advocates.
- [x] **Show appreciation** both in private and in public, and [give credit](../tip-give-credit-where-credit-is-due/) where credit is due. This is incredibly important to retain the dedicated members of your group, and to attract new advocates.
- [x] **Inspire and support** your group members to reach their full potential, and to become the best privacy advocates they can be. Make sure their needs are met, and that they feel safe coming to you for requests.
- [x] **Build a team that is inclusive and diverse.** A [diverse team](tip-keep-your-posts-and-community-inclusive.md) will help your group gain a broader perspective, and be able to do more by having access to a diversity of experiences, skills, and networks. It will also help your message reach more people.
- [x] **Build a team that is inclusive and diverse.** A [diverse team](../tip-keep-your-posts-and-community-inclusive/) will help your group gain a broader perspective, and be able to do more by having access to a diversity of experiences, skills, and networks. It will also help your message reach more people.
- [x] **Lead by example** adopting principles of [integrity](tip-stay-true-to-your-principles.md), transparency, and work-life balance. Valorize and exemplify these behaviors within your group.
- [x] **Lead by example** adopting principles of [integrity](../tip-stay-true-to-your-principles/), transparency, and work-life balance. Valorize and exemplify these behaviors within your group.
- [x] **Plan and organize projects transparently.** Make sure the members of your group are aware of the direction you have in mind, and that they support it. Avoiding surprises internally will make your members feel safer, and will help with retention and satisfaction.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Here are a few tips that can help you become a positive leader in your community
- [x] **Organize leisure opportunities** for your group to discuss together about things other than work, and bound as a team. This will help improve communication, increase morale, and build better relationships within your group, as well as nurture a sense of belonging. Don't make this mandatory, however. Respect everyone's personal availabilities and boundaries.
- [x] **Be (temporarily) replaceable.** If all the work your group does depends on your presence, all your projects will stop when you need to rest. This is a recipe for disaster, because you need to be able to [take time off](tip-take-time-to-rest.md) as much as any other members of your group. Have a backup plan ready, and communicate it with your group in advance. That way, if you fall sick, have to travel, or need time to take care of your family for a while, you will be able to take the time you need. Until you come back, you will be able to rest fully without stress, knowing your projects will keep running well despite your absence.
- [x] **Be (temporarily) replaceable.** If all the work your group does depends on your presence, all your projects will stop when you need to rest. This is a recipe for disaster, because you need to be able to [take time off](../tip-take-time-to-rest/) as much as any other members of your group. Have a backup plan ready, and communicate it with your group in advance. That way, if you fall sick, have to travel, or need time to take care of your family for a while, you will be able to take the time you need. Until you come back, you will be able to rest fully without stress, knowing your projects will keep running well despite your absence.
## Bigger projects to organize
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<div class="admonition recommendation" markdown>
![CryptPad logo](../../assets/img/document-collaboration/cryptpad.svg){ align=right }
![CryptPad logo](../../../tools/software/document-collaboration/cryptpad.svg){ align=right }
**CryptPad** is a free open-source collaborative office suite that uses end-to-end encryption.
:page_with_curl: Use it as an alternative to Google Docs!
[More info](../../tools/software/document-collaboration/index.md#cryptpad){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
[More info](../../../tools/software/document-collaboration/index.md#cryptpad){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
[:octicons-home-16:](https://cryptpad.fr/){ .card-link title="Homepage" }
[:octicons-feed-star-16:](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/07/cryptpad-review/){ .card-link title="Our CryptPad review" }
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<div class="admonition recommendation" markdown>
![Mastodon logo](../../assets/img/social-networks/mastodon.svg){ align=right }
![Mastodon logo](../../../tools/software/social-networks/mastodon.svg){ align=right }
**Mastodon** is a free and open-source microblogging social network.
:speech_balloon: Use it as an [alternative](tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities.md) to commercial social media such as *X*, *Facebook*, *Instagram*, *Threads*, *TikTok*, or *Bluesky*.
:speech_balloon: Use it as an [alternative](../tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/) to commercial social media such as *X*, *Facebook*, *Instagram*, *Threads*, *TikTok*, or *Bluesky*.
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[More info](../../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md#mastodon){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
[:octicons-home-16:](https://joinmastodon.org/){ .card-link title="Homepage" }
[:octicons-feed-star-16:](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/){ .card-link title="Notes on Mastodon Privacy & Security" }
@@ -139,26 +139,26 @@ Here are a few privacy-focused tools and services that can help you to organize
<div class="admonition recommendation" markdown>
![Element logo](../../assets/img/social-networks/element.svg){ align=right }
![Element logo](../../../tools/software/social-networks/element.svg){ align=right }
**Element** is a free open-source client for the [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) open standard for chat-room group communication.
:loudspeaker: Use it as a privacy-preserving alternative to *Slack* or *Discord*.
[More info](../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md#element){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
[More info](../../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md#element){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
[:octicons-home-16:](https://element.io/){ .card-link title="Homepage" }
</div>
<div class="admonition recommendation" markdown>
![PeerTube logo](../../assets/img/social-networks/peertube.svg){ align=right }
![PeerTube logo](../../../tools/software/social-networks/peertube.svg){ align=right }
**PeerTube** is a free open-source video platform developed by the French nonprofit [Framasoft](https://framasoft.org/en/).
:video_camera: Use it to share videos with your community free from *YouTube*'s control.
[:octicons-home-16: Homepage](../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md#peertube){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
[:octicons-home-16: Homepage](../../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md#peertube){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
</div>
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<summary>More Alternatives &nbsp;📗</summary>
- **Maps & Navigation:** [Organic Maps](../../tools/software/maps/index.md#organic-maps) or [OsmAnd](../../tools/software/maps/index.md#osmand)
- **Calendar Sync:** [Tuta](../../tools/services/calendar/index.md#tuta) or [Proton](../../tools/services/calendar/index.md#proton-calendar)
- **Cloud Storage:** [Proton Drive](../../tools/services/cloud/index.md#proton-drive), [Tresorit](../../tools/services/cloud/index.md#tresorit), or [Peergos](../../tools/services/cloud/index.md#peergos)
- **File Sharing:** [OnionShare](../../tools/software/file-sharing/index.md#onionshare), [Send](../../tools/software/file-sharing/index.md#send), or [Syncthing](../../tools/software/file-sharing/index.md#syncthing-p2p)
- **Maps & Navigation:** [Organic Maps](../../../tools/software/maps/index.md#organic-maps) or [OsmAnd](../../../tools/software/maps/index.md#osmand)
- **Calendar Sync:** [Tuta](../../../tools/services/calendar/index.md#tuta) or [Proton](../../../tools/services/calendar/index.md#proton-calendar)
- **Cloud Storage:** [Proton Drive](../../../tools/services/cloud/index.md#proton-drive), [Tresorit](../../../tools/services/cloud/index.md#tresorit), or [Peergos](../../../tools/services/cloud/index.md#peergos)
- **File Sharing:** [OnionShare](../../../tools/software/file-sharing/index.md#onionshare), [Send](../../../tools/software/file-sharing/index.md#send), or [Syncthing](../../../tools/software/file-sharing/index.md#syncthing-p2p)
More tools for community organization could include [LAUTI](https://lauti.org/) for community calendars, and [Mobilizon](https://mobilizon.org/) for events and groups. For more on better alternatives to use, you can check this [tip on why and how to migrate away from Big Tech](tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem.md) for your privacy advocacy work.
More tools for community organization could include [LAUTI](https://lauti.org/) for community calendars, and [Mobilizon](https://mobilizon.org/) for events and groups. For more on better alternatives to use, you can check this [tip on why and how to migrate away from Big Tech](../tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem/) for your privacy advocacy work.
</details>
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- [Campaign accelerator training (*Mobilisation Lab*)](https://mobilisationlab.org/training-coaching/campaign-accelerator-training/)
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title: Lift Your Allies Up
description: The battle for privacy rights is difficult, and its defenders are scattered. This is why it's essential to support and uplift each other, every time we can.
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At times, it might feel like the privacy community is niche and isolated.
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It's easy to get lost in our own niche advocacy, and lose track of what others in our community are working on.
Nevertheless, if we want to [**build a movement**](tip-start-alliances-not-wars.md) (and to succeed, we must) we need all the help we can get, from every person and organization sharing our values.
Nevertheless, if we want to [**build a movement**](../tip-start-alliances-not-wars/) (and to succeed, we must) we need all the help we can get, from every person and organization sharing our values.
- [x] Whenever you see an organization with a campaign compatible with your mission, lift them up!

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title: Make It Cute
description: If you are developing a privacy-focused application or website, it's important that you do not neglect the design aspect of it. Make it cute!
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If you are developing a privacy-focused application or website, it's important that you **do not neglect the design** aspect of it. This is a common mistake that can have a significant negative impact on adoption by a general audience. Make it cute!
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<div class="emoji-list-a" markdown>
- Make sure that your app or website is [accessible](tip-be-mindful-of-accessibility.md) as much as possible. Accessibility will not only make more people able to use your application, but it's likely to also improve user experience for everyone.
- Make sure that your app or website is [accessible](../tip-be-mindful-of-accessibility/) as much as possible. Accessibility will not only make more people able to use your application, but it's likely to also improve user experience for everyone.
- Wrap your product in a pretty package. If you can afford it, hire a professional designer to polish your app or website interface, as well as your organization's logo and promotional material. Design can truly be a make-or-break moment. Do not neglect it!
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title: Migrate Outside The Surveillance Ecosystem
description: As privacy activists, it's important to lead by example and support the tools and organizations with good privacy practices, by moving away from Big Tech.
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As privacy activists, it's not only important to support the tools and organizations with good privacy practices, but also to lead by example when it comes to **moving away from the surveillance ecosystem**. We cannot afford to compromise our principles simply for [convenience](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/07/selling-surveillance-as-convenience/).
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ While using the most popular mainstream tools and platforms for our work might s
<div class="emoji-list-a" markdown>
1. The first drawback is that by using products that are antithetical to our values, we are directly participating in sustaining anti-privacy corporations and contributing to [surveillance capitalism](../../wiki/basics/common-threats/index.md#surveillance-as-a-business-model).
1. The first drawback is that by using products that are antithetical to our values, we are directly participating in sustaining anti-privacy corporations and contributing to [surveillance capitalism](../../../wiki/basics/common-threats/index.md#surveillance-as-a-business-model).
2. The second drawback is that simply by using Big Tech tools, we are indirectly promoting the usage of services that are horrible for everyone's privacy.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ While using the most popular mainstream tools and platforms for our work might s
<div class="admonition question inline end" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">What is the best tool?</p>
For each proposed alternative, you should always first consider your own [threat model](../../wiki/basics/threat-modeling/index.md). One tool might be ideal for one person or organization, but another tool might be better for another. Make sure to understand well your threat model in order to choose the tools that are the best for your unique situation.
For each proposed alternative, you should always first consider your own [threat model](../../../wiki/basics/threat-modeling/index.md). One tool might be ideal for one person or organization, but another tool might be better for another. Make sure to understand well your threat model in order to choose the tools that are the best for your unique situation.
</div>
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<div class="emoji-list-b" markdown>
- **[Messaging communication](../../tools/services/messengers/index.md):** Move your text message communication, audio calls, and video calls to a secure messenger like Signal. Enable features like Signal's username option, and disappearing messages.
- **[Messaging communication](../../../tools/services/messengers/index.md):** Move your text message communication, audio calls, and video calls to a secure messenger like Signal. Enable features like Signal's username option, and disappearing messages.
- **Sensitive messaging communication:** If your threat model requires a peer-to-peer solution that doesn't need a phone number and transits over the [Tor network](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/), you might want to use an application such as [Cwtch](https://docs.cwtch.im/) or [Briar](../../tools/services/messengers/index.md#briar).
- **Sensitive messaging communication:** If your threat model requires a peer-to-peer solution that doesn't need a phone number and transits over the [Tor network](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/), you might want to use an application such as [Cwtch](https://docs.cwtch.im/) or [Briar](../../../tools/services/messengers/index.md#briar).
- **[Email communication](../../tools/services/email/index.md):** Migrate to a privacy-respectful email service that offers end-to-end encryption, such as Proton Mail or Tuta. Make sure to inform yourself about the limitations of email privacy when using email for sensitive communication.
- **[Email communication](../../../tools/services/email/index.md):** Migrate to a privacy-respectful email service that offers end-to-end encryption, such as Proton Mail or Tuta. Make sure to inform yourself about the limitations of email privacy when using email for sensitive communication.
<section class="admonition success inline end" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Service providers disclosure and compatibility</p>
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</section>
- **[Document storing and sharing](../../tools/software/document-collaboration/index.md):** Move away from privacy-invasive Google products to store and share documents. Instead, use an end-to-end encrypted solution such as [CryptPad](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/07/cryptpad-review/) for your collaborative documents and forms. Proton Drive also offers collaborative documents with *Proton Docs* and *Sheets*.
- **[Document storing and sharing](../../../tools/software/document-collaboration/index.md):** Move away from privacy-invasive Google products to store and share documents. Instead, use an end-to-end encrypted solution such as [CryptPad](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/07/cryptpad-review/) for your collaborative documents and forms. Proton Drive also offers collaborative documents with *Proton Docs* and *Sheets*.
- **[Storing files](../../tools/services/cloud/index.md):** Choose an end-to-end encrypted cloud solution to store and share files. Always keep in mind that if a cloud service provider doesn't offer solid end-to-end encryption, then it can potentially access any of your stored files.
- **[Storing files](../../../tools/services/cloud/index.md):** Choose an end-to-end encrypted cloud solution to store and share files. Always keep in mind that if a cloud service provider doesn't offer solid end-to-end encryption, then it can potentially access any of your stored files.
- **Surveys:** Stop using products such as Google Forms to poll your community. Instead, choose a privacy-focused alternative such as [CryptPad Form](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/07/cryptpad-review/#form) or [Framaforms](https://framaforms.org/abc/en/).
- **[Online calendar](../../tools/services/calendar/index.md):** Your online calendar can be an important source of sensitive data. Moreover, you might store other's people data in it, or use it to share event links with collaborators. It's essential to make sure to use a privacy-protecting solution for online and collaborative calendars.
- **[Online calendar](../../../tools/services/calendar/index.md):** Your online calendar can be an important source of sensitive data. Moreover, you might store other's people data in it, or use it to share event links with collaborators. It's essential to make sure to use a privacy-protecting solution for online and collaborative calendars.
- **Groups and events:** When organizing groups or events, be careful to choose platforms that are privacy-respectful and don't require participants to register personal information. Keep in mind that if you only use Facebook groups, you are contributing to people staying on a privacy-invasive platform. If you only use a closed Meetup group, you are demanding people create an account and share their sensitive data in order to join. Instead, use privacy-respectful platforms such as [Mobilizon](https://mobilizon.org/) or [LAUTI](https://lauti.org/) for groups and events, [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) for forums, or simply use your own website to advertise in-person events.
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- **Availability:** Make sure you or your organization is reachable outside the Big Tech ecosystem. If your organization only has a Facebook page, then people without a Facebook account cannot reach out to you. The same is true for other commercial social media. Instead, try to rely on a website you control yourself, or a social network page you can host yourself.
- **[Social media](../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md):** Move away from commercial social media platforms. Mainstream platforms are almost all abusing their users' data. By keeping an account there, you are indirectly encouraging your followers to stay there as well, perpetuating the platform's abuse.
- **[Social media](../../../tools/software/social-networks/index.md):** Move away from commercial social media platforms. Mainstream platforms are almost all abusing their users' data. By keeping an account there, you are indirectly encouraging your followers to stay there as well, perpetuating the platform's abuse.
While you may want to keep a minimal presence to advertise that you have now moved your activity to a more privacy-respectful platform, you should keep your engagement there to a minimum.
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## More resources
- [Alternatives to Big Tech that have been vetted by our community (*Privacy Guides*)](../../tools/_index.md)
- [Alternatives to Big Tech that have been vetted by our community (*Privacy Guides*)](../../../tools/_index.md)
- [Privacy-respecting European tech alternatives (*Privacy Guides*)](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/)

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title: Protect Your Allies
description: Through your privacy work, it's crucial to protect the data of your allies in all that you do, whether it's individual action or leading an organization.
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Through your privacy advocacy work, be careful to never collect or share the data of others without their prior explicit consent. It's crucial to **protect your allies' data** in all that you do, whether it's individual action, organizing an event, or leading an organization.
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There are many ways we might collect the data of others in the course of our advocacy, sometimes without even realizing it.
It's important to develop an awareness of the data we collect and share ourselves, and protect the data of others with the greatest care. Not only is this critical for [integrity](tip-stay-true-to-your-principles.md), but it's also fundamental to build and keep the trust of our allies. This in return is essential to build and grow our movement.
It's important to develop an awareness of the data we collect and share ourselves, and protect the data of others with the greatest care. Not only is this critical for [integrity](../tip-stay-true-to-your-principles/), but it's also fundamental to build and keep the trust of our allies. This in return is essential to build and grow our movement.
Here are a some examples of other people's data we might collect or share in the context of our privacy advocacy work, whether intentionally or inadvertently:

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title: Refuse to Participate
description: As privacy activists, we must be a voice for resistance and take a stand against abusive practices, by refusing to comply with privacy-intrusive requests.
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As privacy advocates and activists, it's important to **be a voice for resistance** and take a stand against abusive practices. One substantial way to do this is to refuse to participate in privacy-intrusive requests, or use invasive software.
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ While it might be ambitious to expect people who aren't even aware of privacy is
Each time we use a platform, tool, or service that is privacy-invasive in our practice, we also contribute in normalizing the use of privacy-abusive software.
It's not always easy to [leave Big Tech](tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem.md) and adopt more privacy-preserving technologies in our daily work. Nevertheless, it's an essential part of our advocacy.
It's not always easy to [leave Big Tech](../tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem/) and adopt more privacy-preserving technologies in our daily work. Nevertheless, it's an essential part of our advocacy.
When we use products that do not reflect the values we are asking people to adopt, we not only undermine our own credibility as privacy advocates, but we also harm the privacy rights movement as a whole. It's crucial to lead by example and publicly refuse to use and participate in privacy-abusive platforms, as much as feasible for our situation.
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- Read apps' privacy-labels, and always favor applications that are the least intrusive.
- Migrate [away from abusive Big Tech](tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem.md) products and platforms.
- Migrate [away from abusive Big Tech](../tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem/) products and platforms.
- Try to move out or reduce your usage of [privacy-exploiting social media](tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities.md).
- Try to move out or reduce your usage of [privacy-exploiting social media](../tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/).
- Each time you install a new application or create a new account, go through the settings to disable all the privacy-invasive features you can disable. Make sure to disable any AI features as well.
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- Inform yourself in advance about potential legal options to opt out of privacy-invasive technologies such as airport facial scanner.
- Refuse to provide an official piece of ID online for purposes that aren't strictly necessary, such as government requests. Do not comply with intrusive [age-verification](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/) processes. Leave your account abandoned instead, or [delete it](../../wiki/basics/account-deletion/index.md) if you still can. Additionally, consider contacting your government representatives and the platform's complaint email to voice your privacy concerns about such practice.
- Refuse to provide an official piece of ID online for purposes that aren't strictly necessary, such as government requests. Do not comply with intrusive [age-verification](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/) processes. Leave your account abandoned instead, or [delete it](../../../wiki/basics/account-deletion/index.md) if you still can. Additionally, consider contacting your government representatives and the platform's complaint email to voice your privacy concerns about such practice.
- [Report privacy violations](tip-report-privacy-violations.md) of your local privacy laws whenever you can.
- [Report privacy violations](../tip-report-privacy-violations/) of your local privacy laws whenever you can.
- Depending on your position, refuse to collect or share personal information on others without their prior, explicit, and informed consent (unless you are *legally* required). Be mindful of the software or third-party partners you use that could inadvertently share more information about others than you intended, such as [website telemetry](https://sebastiangreger.net/2014/02/privacy-aware-design-replacing-google-analytics/) or [social media buttons](https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/why-we-created-our-own-social-media-buttons-on-our-website/).
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## More resources
- [*Privacy Guides* tools and services recommendations](../../tools/_index.md)
- [*Privacy Guides* tools and services recommendations](../../../tools/_index.md)
- [You can say NO (*Privacy Guides*)](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/17/you-can-say-no/)

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title: Report Privacy Violations
description: Submitting an official complaint for violation of your privacy rights is often simple, and can have a significant positive impact for your community.
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Once you are [informed on your local privacy laws](tip-know-your-privacy-laws.md), it's important to get familiar with the process to **report violations of the law**. Submitting an official complaint is often simple, and can have a significant impact both for yourself and for your community.
Once you are [informed on your local privacy laws](../tip-know-your-privacy-laws/), it's important to get familiar with the process to **report violations of the law**. Submitting an official complaint is often simple, and can have a significant impact both for yourself and for your community.
Here's why and how you should report violations of your local privacy laws:
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ This tip cannot cover each regulation individually. There will be variations for
For many (if not most) privacy regulations, there isn't a mechanism to systematically audit every single organization collecting data from people located in its jurisdiction.
Unless the enforcing authority decides to investigate an especially important abuse, the process often relies on individual complaints reporting violations of [**data subject**](tip-know-your-privacy-laws.md#where-is-the-data-subject) rights in order to trigger an investigation.
Unless the enforcing authority decides to investigate an especially important abuse, the process often relies on individual complaints reporting violations of [**data subject**](../tip-know-your-privacy-laws/#where-is-the-data-subject) rights in order to trigger an investigation.
If you believe that your privacy rights have been violated by an organization, infringing your local privacy regulations, you can likely report this violation to the entity responsible for enforcing the law, the **Data Protection Authority** (DPA).
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<div class="admonition success" markdown>
<p class="admonition-title">Finding your local privacy law and enforcement authority</p>
To help you find the official documentation for your local privacy law, the authority mandated to enforce it, and the contact links to ask questions or place a complaint, Privacy Guides has put together this handy [DPA Directory](../legal/dpa-directory.md).
To help you find the official documentation for your local privacy law, the authority mandated to enforce it, and the contact links to ask questions or place a complaint, Privacy Guides has put together this handy [DPA Directory](../../legal/dpa-directory/).
</div>
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<div class="emoji-list-c" markdown>
- [Privacy Laws and Data Protection Authority Directory (*Privacy Guides*)](../legal/dpa-directory.md)
- [Privacy Laws and Data Protection Authority Directory (*Privacy Guides*)](../../legal/dpa-directory/)
- [European Union Member States Data Protection Authorities - List and Map (*EDPB*)](https://www.edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en)

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title: Small Actions Matter
description: There is so much to do to improve privacy rights. So much, that it's sometimes easy to feel discouraged. But everything helps, and even small action matters.
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There is so much to do in the movement for better privacy rights. So much, that it's sometimes easy to feel discouraged when facing the scale of what's left to accomplish. But **everything helps**. Every small improvement counts, and every small victory should be celebrated.
Even if you don't feel like you have the [energy](tip-take-time-to-rest.md) to move a mountain today, there are plenty of small actions you can do.
Even if you don't feel like you have the [energy](../tip-take-time-to-rest/) to move a mountain today, there are plenty of small actions you can do.
Moreover, you don't have to move this mountain alone! If you push on it a little today, and a thousand people join you tomorrow, then a thousand more the day after, this mountain will eventually move.
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## Small actions cumulate over time, and with numbers
Discouragement often emerges from envisioning too much of what's left to do at once. While it's important to [expand your perspective](tip-dont-stop-at-individual-solutions.md), when it comes to action, it's also important to segment the task at hand into smaller bites.
Discouragement often emerges from envisioning too much of what's left to do at once. While it's important to [expand your perspective](../tip-dont-stop-at-individual-solutions/), when it comes to action, it's also important to segment the task at hand into smaller bites.
Even if you do not have the resources to organize a large campaign around a privacy issue, do not minimize the power that you have.
All the ==small contributions you can make will culminate over time==, and end up having a significant impact overall.
Additionally, you are [not alone](tip-lift-your-allies-up.md) in this battle. If you can make a small contribution today, and perhaps convince one or two other advocates to do the same, you have already contributed significantly to the movement.
Additionally, you are [not alone](../tip-lift-your-allies-up/) in this battle. If you can make a small contribution today, and perhaps convince one or two other advocates to do the same, you have already contributed significantly to the movement.
## Divide your big ideas in small bites

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title: Start Alliances, Not Wars
description: People in the privacy community can have different views that can create conflicts at times. For our community to thrive, we must start alliances, not wars.
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The privacy community consists of a patchwork of individuals, activists, organizations, and businesses that sometimes hold quite different views. These divergences can create conflict and friction at times.
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Here are a few ideas to start building alliances within the privacy community:
- **Keep a list** of organizations and other privacy activists sharing your values. Mastodon's [list feature](https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon/) can be very helpful to build a social network feed for this. Using an [RSS feed reader](../../tools/software/news-aggregators/index.md) is another great way to do this.
- **Keep a list** of organizations and other privacy activists sharing your values. Mastodon's [list feature](https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon/) can be very helpful to build a social network feed for this. Using an [RSS feed reader](../../../tools/software/news-aggregators/index.md) is another great way to do this.
- **Get familiar** with what your allies are working on. Think about ways their mission might be compatible with yours.
- **Reach out** to your allies and [amplify their voices](tip-lift-your-allies-up.md) whenever you can. Boost them up! 📣
- **Reach out** to your allies and [amplify their voices](../tip-lift-your-allies-up/) whenever you can. Boost them up! 📣
- **Participate** in local events where you might be able to meet allies in-person, if this is something you can afford and do safely.
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title: Stay True to Your Principles
description: If you manage a digital rights group, it's important to make sure you aren't subjecting your contributors to the privacy-invasive tech you're fighting against.
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If you manage a digital rights group, meetup, chat room, event, or organization even, make sure you aren't subjecting your members and contributors to the very privacy-invasive tech you're fighting against. Sadly, it's not rare to see organizations and communities that aren't following their own privacy advice for internal practices.
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Here are a few examples of practices and good habits you might want to adopt:
- [x] Make sure to [inform yourself about the privacy laws](tip-know-your-privacy-laws.md) you have to comply with in your work, and go above and beyond to respect them carefully.
- [x] Make sure to [inform yourself about the privacy laws](../tip-know-your-privacy-laws/) you have to comply with in your work, and go above and beyond to respect them carefully.
- [x] Create a [Code of Ethics](https://www.wikihow.com/Develop-a-Code-of-Ethics) for your group or organization, and ensure it includes a special emphasis on enforcing your privacy values.
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title: Support Your Privacy Comrades
description: Fighting for privacy rights is a collective endeavor. This battle can be difficult and isolating at time. That's why it's critical to care for each other.
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Fighting for better privacy rights, privacy tools, and privacy practices is a collective endeavor. You cannot do it alone. Anyone around you contributing is fighting the same battle by your side. This battle *can* be difficult and isolating at times. That's why it's critical to care for each other.
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ Here are things you can do to **support your privacy comrades**:
We live in a world of social connections. Regrettably, when we moved these connections online, we also gave power to large corporations to monitor and monetize our social relationships and communications.
Many privacy advocates will choose, rightly so, to completely [leave](tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem.md) those abusive platforms. Sadly, a side effect of this is often severed relationships with loved ones, who refuse to join us on better, privacy-respectful environments. It's unfortunately common to lose friends when we quit Facebook, or refuse to join a Discord server. Taking a stand for our privacy values can come at the cost of some painful social losses.
Many privacy advocates will choose, rightly so, to completely [leave](../tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem/) those abusive platforms. Sadly, a side effect of this is often severed relationships with loved ones, who refuse to join us on better, privacy-respectful environments. It's unfortunately common to lose friends when we quit Facebook, or refuse to join a Discord server. Taking a stand for our privacy values can come at the cost of some painful social losses.
Moreover, fighting to protect privacy rights while reading about attacks on those rights every day in the news can be draining.
Most advocates have experienced moments of great discouragement, and feelings of helplessness while facing the magnitude of the task at hand. ==Social support is a matter of survival== to recharge and continue this long battle for human rights.
This is why we must work to rebuild communities of our own. Supportive privacy communities that are [kind](tip-be-kind-to-people-but-be-relentless-with-institutions.md), [inclusive](tip-keep-your-posts-and-community-inclusive.md), and [accessible](tip-be-mindful-of-accessibility.md).
This is why we must work to rebuild communities of our own. Supportive privacy communities that are [kind](../tip-be-kind-to-people-but-be-relentless-with-institutions/), [inclusive](../tip-keep-your-posts-and-community-inclusive/), and [accessible](../tip-be-mindful-of-accessibility/).
## Stay vigilant to spot signs of distress and fatigue
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- [Take care and prevent an activist burnout (*Activist Handbook*)](https://activisthandbook.org/wellbeing)
- [Build communities on privacy-respectful social networks, and invite your privacy comrades to join you there (*Privacy Guides*)](tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities.md)
- [Build communities on privacy-respectful social networks, and invite your privacy comrades to join you there (*Privacy Guides*)](../tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/)

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title: Take Time to Rest, But Come Back to Fight With Us
description: The battle for privacy will be a long one. This isn't a sprint, it's a marathon. If you want to be a good advocate, you must learn to rest when you need it.
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The battle for privacy rights will be a long one. This isn't a sprint, it's a marathon.
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In our society's hustle culture, it's counterproductive that we often value overwork more than strategic rest.
The thing is, overwork isn't a sustainable strategy for the long battle ahead of us. ==What we need to succeed is privacy activists who will fight by our side for a very long time.== We need endurance and persistence. And for this to happen, we need ourselves and our [privacy comrades](tip-support-your-privacy-comrades.md) to be well-rested, by taking pauses and adopting the strategies we all need to recharge.
The thing is, overwork isn't a sustainable strategy for the long battle ahead of us. ==What we need to succeed is privacy activists who will fight by our side for a very long time.== We need endurance and persistence. And for this to happen, we need ourselves and our [privacy comrades](../tip-support-your-privacy-comrades/) to be well-rested, by taking pauses and adopting the strategies we all need to recharge.
We need our movement to stay away from the often toxic hustle culture we have all observed from Big Tech companies, and instead embrace a culture of mutual support that encourages self-care.
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- **Find friends:** Find a [community of peers](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/) you can talk to. Exchange resources and seek support from your community. Remember that you aren't alone in this battle.
- **Split the work:** Delegate tasks to privacy comrades. Seek allies and [alliances](tip-start-alliances-not-wars.md). Reach out for help, and don't take all the responsibilities of your projects on your own shoulders. Build a team, and learn to trust others with the work.
- **Split the work:** Delegate tasks to privacy comrades. Seek allies and [alliances](../tip-start-alliances-not-wars/). Reach out for help, and don't take all the responsibilities of your projects on your own shoulders. Build a team, and learn to trust others with the work.
- **Celebrate!** Take the time to celebrate each victory, no matter how small. Celebrate with your peers too, and never miss an opportunity to [congratulate](tip-give-credit-where-credit-is-due.md) everyone's hard work.
- **Celebrate!** Take the time to celebrate each victory, no matter how small. Celebrate with your peers too, and never miss an opportunity to [congratulate](../tip-give-credit-where-credit-is-due/) everyone's hard work.
- **Take vacations:** Plan longer breaks through the year with activities that will have nothing to do with your privacy advocacy work. Make sure they are long enough that you have time to even miss the privacy battlefield, and come back eagerly once you are fully rested.
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- **Call for help:** If you feel like you are at the end of your rope and might be experiencing symptoms of [burnout](https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/burnout-symptoms-signs), seek professional help to support you.
- **Support others:** Don't forget to [support your privacy comrades](tip-support-your-privacy-comrades.md) when you feel well-enough yourself, to prevent exhaustion as a community.
- **Support others:** Don't forget to [support your privacy comrades](../tip-support-your-privacy-comrades/) when you feel well-enough yourself, to prevent exhaustion as a community.
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