Civic Engagement

The Electronic Frontier Foundation — a longtime advocate of online privacy — put together a number of guides on safeguarding your digital communications, each of which can be printed into a one-page wallet-sized foldable pamphlet. Their guides on attending a protest and protecting yourself on social networks are also relevant to users of this guide.

Through the Internet Archive--A guide to some of the most important Dos and Don'ts of attending protests with a phone or similar digital device.

If you're a peaceful protester, but you don't necessarily want your participation in a demonstration to follow you around or lead to harassment online, what sort of steps can you take around your digital security? Read more to find out.

This "knowledge base" links to six separate guides on safely securing your phone, computer, communication, identity, and network.

Given the many opportunities for surveillance and manipulation, how can one responsibly document protests against police brutality? The Blacktivists — a Chicago-based collective of trained Black archivists — offer a few quick tips.

Learn how to responsibly create, organize, store, share, and catalog video recordings taken at protests.

Your cellphone's settings may subject you to surveillance tactics from law enforcement. For those of you unable to leave your phones at home, this article offers a list of steps you can take to minimize your risk.

A PDF version of Critical Art Ensemble's 1997 book, with theory, insights, and action steps as relevant now as when they were published over twenty years ago.