How to sign petitions and be politically involved (newbie)

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I want some tips or elaboration how to best tackle petitions and other political acts.

I have signed petitions in the past and am seeing topics about signing petitions here, and similarly have contacted politicians but don’t how to continue doing this with my growing awareness of privacy/security/anonymity. The problem is, it seems political involvement in the conventional sense is at odds with privacy, because names and addresses are often involved.

It seems anonymity is out of the question, so my concern would be broader tracking and fingerprinting, as well as security.

I have been preparing for the closure of an old email address I had, and was trying to delete and update accounts associated with it, including petition sites. It seems the petition sites can be tricky to delete data from, to the point where I am not able to delete the data in time. Anything political seems to be difficult to pull back from. :face_with_steam_from_nose:

Any tips? Bear in mind that I am not in the EU, nor in a danger zone, but where I am privacy laws are not very robust.

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You could be politically involved and skip petitions. For example attend demonstration with a guy fawkes mask, clown mask, big sun glasses…

For petitions, usually it mean given you real name and adress and these will appear online.

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Ephemeral email addresses and aliases are useful when being solicited by various entities for contact information in order to participate in a campaign.