Digital Safety Self-Defense: An Anti-hacking Anti-doxing Workshop
Recording: Digital Security Â鶹Æƽâ°æ Speaks
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
3 - 4:15 pm
If you use social media to express yourself and advocate on behalf of people and issues you care about, you may experience or witness online abuse. Folks who identify as women, LGBTQIA+, and/or BIPOC are disproportionately targeted. But there are concrete steps you can take to protect yourself from abusive tactics such as impersonation. hacking, and doxing (publishing of private info). Grab your devices and join PEN America and Freedom of the Press Foundation for this interactive workshop where we’ll teach you how to audit your social media accounts, tighten your privacy settings, and track your personal information online so you can stay safer while speaking out.
PEN America + Freedom of the Press Foundation Journalists expected to maintain an online presence and engage on social media—particularly those who identify as women, LGBTQIA+, and/or BIPOC—are increasingly facing online abuse, from impersonation and hacking to doxing (publishing private info). Bring your devices and join this hands-on workshop to learn how to outsmart the trolls by auditing your social media accounts, tightening your privacy settings, and tracking down your personal info so you can maintain the public profile you need to do your job.
Additional Resources: to help protect yourself and navigate online abuse:
- PEN America’s: with an explanation of what and sections on how to,, practice, and offer.
- written by PEN America for Slate
- written by PEN America for Slate & HBR.
- , by Hollaback!