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Read our new ‘Free to Protest’ guides and learn about the high tech surveillance tools that enable the police to identify, monitor and track protestors, indiscriminately and at scale - and find out how you can better protect yourself.

Key Resources

Online tracking is a widespread practice with questionnable ethics and legal backing. Learn how to limit your data from being collected unwillingly and disrupt the tracking industry!

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A brief guide to how social media monitoring can be used at a protest, and how you can minimise risks to your data (UK edition)

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The police can access your mobile phone’s ‘unique identifiers’. Learn how to maintain your anonymity (UK edition).

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The police can access your digital communications. Learn how to limit the risk.

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If the police seize your phone during a protest, they can gain access to your location data. Here's how to better control access to your data (UK edition).

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The police may use facial recognition technology, IMSI catchers, geo-location technology and other tools to identify protesters and add them to databases or watchlists, feeding into their 'predictive policing' tools. Here's what you need to know (UK edition).

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This guide explains how policing databases can be used at a protest and negatively affect individuals' lives (UK edition)

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A guide to how police drone technology may be used at protests, and how you can try to maintain anonymity (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how body worn video cameras can be used at a protest (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how gait recognition technology can be used at a protest and how you can try to maintain your anonymity (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how facial recognition technology can be used at a protest and how can you try to maintain your anonymity (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how hacking can be used at protests and how you can minimise risks to your data (UK edition).

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A brief guide to how IMSI catchers can be used at a protest and how you can minimise risks to your data (UK edition).

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This guide explains how the police can access data to your Cloud-based services and the apps that store data in there, such as Slack, Telegram and WhatsApp. (UK edition)

Video

This week we bring you an episode from last year in which we talked to PI's Tech Co-ordination Groups to bring you tips and tricks about how to start cleaning up and securing your phone or computer.

Please note - WhatsApp does now offer disappearing messages!