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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
That’s a crucial safeguard given that Trump has said in his recent campaigning, for instance, that he will hunt down and prosecute government staffers leaking information to journalists—and his previous administration seized the phone and email records of reporters at The New York Times and CNN. That does present the risk that someone who grabs your phone will exploit this feature: You can tell a police officer or FBI agent you forgot your iPhone’s passcode, like indicted New York mayor Eric Adams did, but you can’t remove your face. That browser for desktops and laptops, or the mobile equivalent called Orbot, both offered by the nonprofit Tor Project, triple-encrypt your web-browsing data and bounce your connection to the sites you visit through a series of proxy computers.
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