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- feedback
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cover: activism/banner-activism-toolbox.webp
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**The Privacy Activist Toolbox is a resource for anyone interested in becoming a better privacy rights activist, or anyone who wants to start advocating for privacy rights.**
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The **Privacy Activist Toolbox** is a resource for anyone interested in becoming a better privacy rights activist, or anyone who wants to start advocating for privacy rights.
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This page is also a resource to help digital rights organizations that would like to expand their work focusing on privacy.
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3. **Protect** the collected data with adequate and proportional security measures, ideally using [end-to-end encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption) every time this is possible.
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4. If this data needs to be shared with a third-party or a service provider, obtain data subject's consent prior to sharing, and verify the third-party or service provider offers adequate protections and proper deletion mechanisms.
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- If this data needs to be shared with a third-party or a service provider, obtain data subject's consent prior to sharing, and verify the third-party or service provider offers adequate protections and proper deletion mechanisms.
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5. **Delete** the data as soon as it isn't needed anymore, and ensure deletion is done thoroughly.
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4. **Delete** the data as soon as it isn't needed anymore, and ensure deletion is done thoroughly.
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### Some practices to normalize in our advocacy work
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title: Small Actions Matter
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description: There is so much to do to improve privacy rights. So much, that it's sometime easy to feel discouraged. But everything helps, and even small action matters.
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description: There is so much to do to improve privacy rights. So much, that it's sometimes easy to feel discouraged. But everything helps, and even small action matters.
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cover: activism/banner-toolbox-tip-small.webp
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There is so much to do in the movement for better privacy rights. So much, that it's sometime easy to feel discouraged when facing the scale of what's left to accomplish. But **everything helps**. Every small improvement counts, and every small victory should be celebrated.
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There is so much to do in the movement for better privacy rights. So much, that it's sometimes easy to feel discouraged when facing the scale of what's left to accomplish. But **everything helps**. Every small improvement counts, and every small victory should be celebrated.
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Even if you don't feel like you [have the energy](tip-take-time-to-rest.md) to move a mountain today, there are plenty of small actions you can do.
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Even if you don't feel like you have the [energy](tip-take-time-to-rest.md) to move a mountain today, there are plenty of small actions you can do.
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Moreover, ==you don't have to move this mountain alone!== If you push on it a little today, and a thousand people join you tomorrow, then a thousand more the day after, this mountain will eventually move.
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Moreover, you don't have to move this mountain alone! If you push on it a little today, and a thousand people join you tomorrow, then a thousand more the day after, this mountain will eventually move.
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Here's why every action and each victory matter, no matter how small:
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## Small actions cumulate over time, and with numbers
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Discouragement often emerges from envisioning too much of what's left to do at once. While it's important to [expand your perspective](tip-dont-stop-at-individual-solutions.md), when it comes to action, it's also important to segment the task at hand in smaller bites.
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Discouragement often emerges from envisioning too much of what's left to do at once. While it's important to [expand your perspective](tip-dont-stop-at-individual-solutions.md), when it comes to action, it's also important to segment the task at hand into smaller bites.
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Even if you do not have the resource to organize a large campaign around a privacy issue, do not minimize the power that you have.
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Even if you do not have the resources to organize a large campaign around a privacy issue, do not minimize the power that you have.
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All the small ==contributions you can make will cumulate together over time==, and end up having a significant effect overall.
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All the ==small contributions you can make will culminate over time==, and end up having a significant impact overall.
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Additionally, you are [not alone](tip-lift-your-allies-up.md) in this battle. If you can make a small contribution today, and convince maybe one or two other advocates to do the same, you have already contributed significantly to the movement.
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Additionally, you are [not alone](tip-lift-your-allies-up.md) in this battle. If you can make a small contribution today, and perhaps convince one or two other advocates to do the same, you have already contributed significantly to the movement.
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## Divide your big ideas in small bites
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Whenever you have a big idea to attack a privacy issue, make sure to [plan out your action](https://commonslibrary.org/effective-activist-strategic-plans/) by splitting up the task over time, and delegating to allies.
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For example, if you want to organize a petition, perhaps ask one person to help with the website infrastructure, another with the design, another with the text, and another with the backend. Then, instead of trying to collect one million signatures by yourself, try to find allies and ask if they can help to collect a few signatures each. Multiple your small impact by delegating to many.
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For example, if you want to organize a petition, perhaps ask one person to help with the website infrastructure, another with the design, another with the text, and another with the backend. Then, instead of trying to collect one million signatures by yourself, try to find allies and ask if they can help collect a few signatures each. Multiply your small impact by delegating to many.
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Each person who signs the petition contributes with each their own small action. Each person who helps to spread the word about the petition also helps with another small action. And each person who contributes to promoting the petition on their own channels helps as well. This all counts, and it all matters.
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Each person who signs the petition is contributing their own small action. Each person who helps spread the word about the petition is adding another small action. And each person who contributes to promoting the petition on their own channels helps as well. All this counts, and it all matters.
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What seemed like a large project at first becomes much more realistic and manageable after delegating and splitting up the task.
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What can seem like a large project at first can become much more realistic and manageable after delegating and splitting up the tasks.
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## Evaluate your resources, and see what's possible within these limitations
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What you can accomplish will of course depend on the resources you have access to. If you are an individual, or a small organization with a very tight budget, you will not be able to spend as much resource as a large organization with lots of employees and stable funding.
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What you can accomplish will, of course, depend on the resources you have access to. If you are an individual, or a small organization with a very tight budget, you will not be able to commit as many resources as a large organization with lots of employees and stable funding.
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But regardless of the resources you have, there's always something you can do to contribute.
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Here are examples of some actions you might be able to do, from small ones to bigger projects:
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Here are examples of some actions you might be able to do, from small tasks to larger projects:
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## More resources
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- [Privacy is not dead: Beware the all-or-nothing mindset (Privacy Guides)](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/)
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- [Privacy is not dead: Beware the all-or-nothing mindset (*Privacy Guides*)](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/)
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- [Learn about Points of Intervention to better plan and divide your actions (The Commons Social Change Library)](https://commonslibrary.org/points-of-intervention/)
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- [Learn about Points of Intervention to better plan and divide your actions (*The Commons Social Change Library*)](https://commonslibrary.org/points-of-intervention/)
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- [Social change myths: What is a movement (The Commons Social Change Library)](https://commonslibrary.org/social-change-myths/)
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- [Social change myths: What is a movement (*The Commons Social Change Library*)](https://commonslibrary.org/social-change-myths/)
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