To carry out all of those spoken and unspoken threats, the incoming Trump administration and Republicans in Congress will tap into—and may very well expand—the American government's vast surveillance machinery, and they appear poised to use it more than any administration in US history.
Undocumented immigrants, Muslims, pregnant people, journalists, really anyone who doesn't support him need to reconsider their personal privacy safeguards, says Runa Sandvik, a former digital security staffer for The New York Times.
Protection from surveillance comes in two forms: top-down legal and policy limits on data collection, and bottom-up technological protections in the hands of the targets of that surveillance.
That means now is the time for anyone in an at-risk group, those who communicate with them—or even those who want to normalize privacy—to think about how they can upgrade their data security.
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