I really like looking privacy from this perspective, I haven’t read it in detail yet, but I immediately spotted some very good advice there, such as contacts, private messages, smart speakers.
Though making things work, as you said, is very challenging, since it involves a lot of actual work, which most people might not feel comfortable or feel needed to, and privacy friendly measures / alternatives often harm convenience and require people to change their practice.
The key point of success would be friction-less / pain-free migration, with at least on-par usability. There are some practical examples I would like to raise but I’d need to dig deeper to fully back it up first.
Meanwhile, @bitsondatadev asked some questions with fair points which I would try to chip in, but my primary point is that I think this guide simply aimed to raise the awareness, we don’t need to go too deep (just now on this thread
) That being said,
Similarly what about taking photographs of a parade?
Usually professional photographers would do it (i.,e. ask for consent / blur faces / shooting from angle or distance make people in picture harder / impossible to be identified) automatically if they know the parade / protest is sensitive. For normal folks, its down to self-awareness and constant reminders from organisers and actual participants (which I think it is what this guide is talking about).
HOWEVER, the ultimate responsibility of protecting ones’ own identity in these situations is on each individuals. If you cannot risk being exposed, WEAR A MASK, COVER YOUR TATTOOS, etc.
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This guide covers normal folks in their everyday life, so I would think your questions from a non-activism perspective.
Privacy settings of your social media ( I mean Facebook, X, Mastodon, Reddit, etc.) is always crucial to avoid web scraping, also be careful of the platform you use, avoid services that uses your data to train AI. Consider what you said online, both publicly (like this forum or public FB page) or semi-publicly (like private FB group), to be public and will be stored and used by third party.