There's a lot going on in the United States. If you plan to exercise your legal right to protest, we kindly remind you to not RSVP online, "check in" on a social app, or share your name or email with protest organizers.
Protesting a tyrannical government is core to American culture, and Constitutionally enshrined. You can do so by simply showing up, while maintaining good opsec & data privacy.
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@privacyguides and AIUI it is good to let trusted friends or family who will not also be there know where you’ll be, so if you get abducted by feds someone will know to look for you
@privacyguides I was thinking of setting up Signal. but just saw another post on Mastodon saying that AI is compromising the encryption. Maybe time to start keeping pigeons?
@KateConnors not a bad idea 🐦 but that's not a good reason to. Signal is safe to use, and has the strongest security on the market 👍
@privacyguides it does, however, mean you’ll miss things like weather cancellations from the organizers, or suggested next steps.
@megmuttonhead here in Minnesota I don't think we do weather cancellations 😅
I would strongly urge folks to double-check this information on their own, rather than put themselves on a centralized list of protestors.
@privacyguides
I also suggest masking. if you think they aren't doing facial recognition and building a blacklist you are naive.
@privacyguides If you can afford one, buy a burner phone with cash and never have both it and your regular phone near each other while powered on. Here's a blog post that covers this.
https://www.mysite-myopinions.com/2026/01/29/avoid-cellphone-tracking-by-iceholes/
@Yoshi @privacyguides I am instantly inherently distrustful of this information source due to the low effort crappy AI artwork.
