- Helpful Links:
- How to secure your iPhone
- How to secure your android
- How to secure your network access
- Link to check and receive notification if your email, or an account associated with your email, has been compromised
- Instructions on enabling 2FA Here
- Instructions on how to opt-out of data brokers selling and compiling your personal information
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse lists data brokers and instructions for opting-out of each
- Use encrypted messaging such as Signal
- Use a password manager (most of them will alert you if your password is found to have been leaked on the dark web)
- Services like Privacy Hawk provide a way to opt-out automatically of data processing and sales of your data
- USE THE TOR BROWSER (with a VPN)
- Use Virus Total’s Link Checker to check for malicious links before clicking on them. Bad actors will inject code into links that are usually fine to click on, and the sender of the link may even be unaware that they sent you a bad link.
- Use browsers that prioritize privacy such as DuckDuckGo or Firefox Focus
- Use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) on your phone & computer
- Privacy Badger extension for your browser blocks trackers from website
- CALL YOUR CREDIT CARDS, CELL PHONE PROVIDER, UTILITIES, AND BANK TO LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE A TARGET
- To prevent “sim-swapping,” call your cell phone provider and tell them that they should note on your account that you must show physical ID inside of a store location to make certain changes to your account.
- Non-Exhaustive List of States with anti-doxing laws as of Jan. 2025
- Arizona: One of the first states to pass an anti-doxing law, in 2018 (Personal Privacy Protection Act)
- California: Has an anti-doxing law to protect its residents
- Illinois: Has an anti-doxing law to protect its residents (Personal Privacy Protection Act)
- Louisiana: Passed an anti-doxing law in 2020 (Personal Privacy Protection Act)
- Mississippi: Passed an anti-doxing law in 2019 (Personal Privacy Protection Act)
- Missouri: Passed an anti-doxing law in 2022 (Personal Privacy Protection Act)
- North Dakota: Passed House Bill 1134, which classifies doxing as a Class A misdemeanor
- Oklahoma: Passed an anti-doxing law in 2020 (Personal Privacy Protection Act)
- South Dakota: Passed the Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Nebraska: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Colorado: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Kentucky: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Utah: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Tennessee: Passed an anti-doxing law in 2021 (Personal Privacy Protection Act)
- West Virginia: Passed an anti-doxing law in 2020 (Personal Privacy Protection Act)
- Georgia: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Alabama: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Louisiana: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Virginia: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- New Hampshire: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Indiana: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Iowa: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- Kansas: Personal Privacy Protection Act
- The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will provide trainings to LGBTQI+ community organizations – including community centers, small businesses, and Pride festival organizers – to help them prevent and respond to threats.
- The Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) will provide a bi-monthly threat briefings (or as required based on changes in the threat levels) for LGBTQI+ organizations to provide updates on the threat landscape and review key indicators of violence, and offer resources for local leaders.
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Center for Prevention Programs and Partnership (CP3) will lead a series of workshops for LGBTQI+ community organizations to raise awareness of federal funding for both physical security and threat prevention grant opportunities.
- CISA’s threat protection page addressing swatting, doxing, foreign influence operations, and more. Also see CISA’s page about Managing your Online Presence.
Additional Sources:
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