Your email address, phone number, social media posts, and app permissions can reveal more about you than you intended. Details that seem harmless on their own can connect your accounts, routines, and personal life.
Freedom Defense Training's Practical Privacy class helps you understand that exposure and decide what to change. Through real-world examples and guided exercises, you'll learn how to share less personal information, reduce unnecessary tracking, and make privacy choices that fit your life.
You don't need a technical background or a new phone to get started. The class focuses on useful changes you can make with the devices and accounts you already use.
Topics include:
1. Understanding your digital footprint: Learn how public records, online accounts, and everyday information can connect. Identify the exposure that matters most to you.
2. Sharing less personal information: Recognize unnecessary information requests and learn where email aliases and separate contact details can help.
3. Phone and app privacy: Review permissions, location sharing, and settings that affect what your apps can access.
4. Browsing and communication: Understand the benefits and limits of privacy-focused browsers, messaging tools, and VPNs.
5. Reducing existing exposure: Learn how to check your own public information and approach data-broker opt-outs, including what removal can and cannot accomplish.
6. Building a realistic privacy plan: Choose manageable changes without losing access to important accounts or making everyday tasks unnecessarily difficult.
A personal privacy action plan, a practical checklist, and experience reviewing settings and tools you can continue using after class.
Individuals who want more control over their personal information, including parents, professionals, and anyone concerned about online tracking or unwanted exposure. No cybersecurity experience is required.
Bring your charged smartphone and something for taking notes. Any account access needed for exercises stays under your control; you will not be asked to share passwords with the instructor or class.
Our separate GrapheneOS Workshop provides guided setup on a compatible Google Pixel and a follow-up group session after you've had time to use it. You do not need to buy a new phone or enroll in that workshop to benefit from Practical Privacy.
Privacy is about reducing exposure and making informed choices. This class does not promise anonymity or removal of all information about you. Individual stalking, abuse, or other high-risk situations may require private, specialized assistance.
No. This class focuses on privacy practices you can use with your current devices. A compatible Pixel is required only for the separate GrapheneOS setup workshop.
No. You'll learn to evaluate tradeoffs and decide which changes make sense for you.
Your email address, phone number, social media posts, and app permissions can reveal more about you than you intended. Details that seem harmless on their own can connect your accounts, routines, and personal life.
Freedom Defense Training's Practical Privacy class helps you understand that exposure and decide what to change. Through real-world examples and guided exercises, you'll learn how to share less personal information, reduce unnecessary tracking, and make privacy choices that fit your life.
You don't need a technical background or a new phone to get started. The class focuses on useful changes you can make with the devices and accounts you already use.
Topics include:
1. Understanding your digital footprint: Learn how public records, online accounts, and everyday information can connect. Identify the exposure that matters most to you.
2. Sharing less personal information: Recognize unnecessary information requests and learn where email aliases and separate contact details can help.
3. Phone and app privacy: Review permissions, location sharing, and settings that affect what your apps can access.
4. Browsing and communication: Understand the benefits and limits of privacy-focused browsers, messaging tools, and VPNs.
5. Reducing existing exposure: Learn how to check your own public information and approach data-broker opt-outs, including what removal can and cannot accomplish.
6. Building a realistic privacy plan: Choose manageable changes without losing access to important accounts or making everyday tasks unnecessarily difficult.
A personal privacy action plan, a practical checklist, and experience reviewing settings and tools you can continue using after class.
Individuals who want more control over their personal information, including parents, professionals, and anyone concerned about online tracking or unwanted exposure. No cybersecurity experience is required.
Bring your charged smartphone and something for taking notes. Any account access needed for exercises stays under your control; you will not be asked to share passwords with the instructor or class.
Our separate GrapheneOS Workshop provides guided setup on a compatible Google Pixel and a follow-up group session after you've had time to use it. You do not need to buy a new phone or enroll in that workshop to benefit from Practical Privacy.
Privacy is about reducing exposure and making informed choices. This class does not promise anonymity or removal of all information about you. Individual stalking, abuse, or other high-risk situations may require private, specialized assistance.
No. This class focuses on privacy practices you can use with your current devices. A compatible Pixel is required only for the separate GrapheneOS setup workshop.
No. You'll learn to evaluate tradeoffs and decide which changes make sense for you.