Surveillance Self-Defense: 2023 Year in Review

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It’s been a big year for Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD), our repository of self-help resources for helping better protect you and your friends from online spying. We’ve done a number of updates and tackled a few new emerging topics with blog posts.

Fighting for digital security and privacy rights is important, but sometimes we all just need to know what steps we can take to minimize spying, and when steps aren’t possible, explaining how things work to help keep you safe. To do this, we break SSD into five sections:

• Basics: A starter resource that includes overviews of how digital surveillance works.
• Tool Guides: Step-by-step tutorials on using privacy and security tools.
• Further Learning: Explainers about protecting your digital privacy.
• Security Scenarios: Playlists of our resources for specific use cases, such as LGBTQ+ youth, journalists, activists, and more.

But not everything makes sense in SSD, so sometimes we also tackle security education issues with blogs, which tend to focus more on news events or new technology that may not have rolled out widely yet. Each has its place, and each saw a variety of new guidance this year.

Re-tooling Our SSD Tool Guides

Surveillance Self-Defense has provided expert guidance for security and privacy for 14 years. And in those years it has seen a number of revisions, expansions, and changes. We try to consistently audit and update SSD so it contains up to date information. Each guide has a “last reviewed” date so you can quickly see at the start when it last got an expert review.

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