It is truly unbelievable to me how leftist organizations routinely - BY DEFAULT - collect, sell, and otherwise make public names and contact information of their members or event participants. It's as though their goals are not truly movement based but profit b -

This is becoming worse in the age of online-only events - people still haven't conceptualized the privacy and safety difference between folks showing up to a place and folks' names being listed and searchable online

Even giving orgs the benefit of the doubt (because some of the orgs I'm talking about do very good work) - you cannot "create community" online by default sharing names - all you are doing is limiting access

Even if you allow for pseudonyms - pseudonyms are only protective if you use a different one every time - otherwise they function like given names - another thing people miss all the time - pseudonyms still designate identity

I can't tell you the number of times during these last few months that I've learned of a speaker or panel I wanted to hear only to abort halfway through registering for the event when encountering the request-for-information page

We have got to start thinking about data collection in the aggregate - every time personal information is shared online, the impact on your loss of privacy is cumulative. Work that is truly movement-based MUST take this into account

Here, again, is the doxxing prevention harm reduction training from @hackinghustling. Please protect yourselves as best you can https://hackinghustling.org/doxxing-prevention-harm-reduction-training/