Safety Planning

This section is meant to help people access resources that may help them protect their online privacy, safety, and information.

Disclaimer: This website and links provided are for informational purposes only. If you are in need of a safety plan for your immediate safety, you should contact a local anti-violence organization or victim service worker who specializes in digital safety planning, or contact the relevant authorities.

BC Society of Transition Houses
BCSTH’s Technology Safety Project develops resources and information on the use of technology for Canadian anti-violence organizations and women experiencing technology-facilitated violence.
Website: https://bcsth.ca/

BestVPN
In order to educate internet users on these related topics, and point would-be activists in the right direction, Best VPN has compiled a list of organizations dedicated to advocating for digital rights and policy around the world, as well as a list of guides, apps, and other resources allowing people to enhance their internet security.
Website: https://bestvpn.org/

CrashOverRide
CrashOverRide provides educational materials, DIY security guides, and an interactive step-by-step tool to help protect your online life.
Website: http://www.crashoverridenetwork.com/

Citizen Lab: Security Planner
This program will ask you to answer a few simple questions to get personalized online safety recommendations.
Website: https://securityplanner.org/

Clinic to End Tech Abuse
CETA works directly with survivors to determine if someone is using technology to harm them -- and what they can do to stay safe. They also facilitate cutting-edge research to understand how abusers can misuse technology. 
Website: https://www.ceta.tech.cornell.edu/

Computer Security Clinic for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
This clinic provides toolkits, technology assessment questionnaires, privacy check-up guides, and software that can scan your phone to detect apps commonly used by abusive partners.
Website: https://www.ipvtechresearch.org

Cyber-Civil Rights Initiative
The CCRI provides a guideline to removing intimate images online.
Website: https://cybercivilrights.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
The EFF provides information on how online surveillance works, as well as tool guides for installing the most secure applications.
Website: https://ssd.eff.org/en
See EFF’s Eva Galperin’s Ted Talk on Stalkerware here.

endTAB
endTAB provides information on how to end technology-facilitated abuse, including this victim resources guide on what to do if someone has made a non-consensual sexual deepfake of you.
Website: https://www.endtab.org/

Feminist Frequency
Feminist Frequency provides a guide for people who are attacked for speaking out online, particularly aimed at equality seeking groups. It provides security practices for social media, email, online gaming, website platforms, and ensuring privacy of personal information online, as well as the documentation and reporting of harassment, and caring for yourself emotionally during an online attack.
Website: https://onlinesafety.feministfrequency.com/en/

Gender and Tech Resources
This manual is a community-built resource for a growing community of women and trans activists, human rights defenders and technologists. It is designed to be a living, growing collection of practical guidance and information that uniquely speaks to the needs, experiences, and activism of individuals, both online and offline.
Website: https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org

HackBlossom
HackBlossom provides a “DIY Guide to Feminist Cybersecurity”.
Website: https://hackblossom.org

Hacking/Hustling
Hacking/Hustling provides tips on what to do if you have been doxed. Their resources are geared towards sex workers.
Website: https://hackinghustling.org/doxxing-prevention-harm-reduction-training

HeartMob
HeartMob provides a variety of online harassment resources.
Website: https://iheartmob.org

National Network To End Domestic Violence (USA)
Technology Safety provides resources on how to document evidence of online abuse as well as providing advice for how to safety plan around a variety of online abuses including spyware, the misuse of internet of things products, technology facilitated sexual violence, and stalking.
Website: https://www.techsafety.org/

PENamerica (USA)
PENamerica has an online harassment guide targeted at helping writers and journalists who are experiencing online harassment.
Website: https://onlineharassmentfieldmanual.pen.org/

Tactical Tech
Tactical Tech provides The Data Detox Kit, which is a guide to increase your online privacy, digital security and wellbeing. It offers simple steps you can take towards a more balanced and healthy digital lifestyle.
website: https://tacticaltech.org/

TrollBusters (International: Online Harassment/Journalists)
TrollBusters offers supports to women writers and journalists experiencing online abuse including monitoring services, coaching, reputation repair, and digital safety training. Their digital hygiene course is relevant to all people who want to avoid online abuse.
Website: http://www.troll-busters.com/

Witness (International: Human Rights Defenders/Deepfakes)
Witness helps people who are documenting human rights abuses and provides guides on how to preserve video evidence. They also provide resources on deepfakes.
Website: https://www.witness.org/