The privacy community is made of individuals and organizations that sometimes hold quite different views. When these divergences lead to infighting, we have to ask how these internal wars impact our community negatively.
🤝 Learn more on how you can start alliances instead of wars.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Start Alliances, Not Wars: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-start-alliances-not-wars/
Kindness is an essential quality for privacy advocates. To grow our movement, we must meet people from a place of camaraderie.
💟 Learn more on how you can integrate kindness in your work while being relentless with institutions.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Be Kind to People, but Be Relentless with Institutions: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-be-kind-to-people-but-be-relentless-with-institutions/
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. To succeed, we must care for each other.
💛 Learn more on what you can do to support your privacy comrades.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Support Your Privacy Comrades: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-support-your-privacy-comrades/
At times, it can 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 to support each other.
🙌 Learn more on how you can lift your allies up, and help to grow the movement.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Lift Your Allies Up: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-lift-your-allies-up/
Everyone have different needs and face different dangers when their personal data gets exposed. To give actionable privacy advice, it's essential to consider each person's unique situation.
👤 Learn more on how to evaluate each person's threat model.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Consider Everyone's Unique Situation: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-consider-everyones-unique-situation/
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Privacy isn't just about the tools.
It also isn't just about the laws.
And it isn't just about the practices either.
For privacy to become the default, we must consider technology, law, and culture altogether.
🌐 Learn more on how to evaluate the whole landscape.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Keep in Mind the Whole Landscape: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-keep-in-mind-the-whole-landscape/
When we think about privacy, we often focus on the technical tools. While this is an important part of it, it's crucial to also consider how regulations and invasive practices can impact us collectively.
♾️ Learn more on how to expand your perspective on data privacy.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Don't Stop at Individual Solutions: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-dont-stop-at-individual-solutions/
If you want to follow the tips I wrote
for Privacy Guides' new Activism section here, you can follow the hashtag #PrivacyActivistToolbox 🧰✨
We are posting once a day about a new tip, until the end of the month.
Commercial social media is one of the biggest sources of data exploitation. By staying active there, we continue to indirectly support this invasion of privacy.
🌱 Learn more on how you can minimize your presence and slowly build better social networks.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Improve Your Social Media: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/
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As privacy activists, it's important to support the tools and organizations with good practices, but also to lead by example when it comes to moving away from the surveillance ecosystem.
➡️ Learn more on why and how to move away from Big Tech.
🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Migrate Outside the Surveillance Ecosystem: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-migrate-outside-the-surveillance-ecosystem/
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