Digital Security & Doxxing Prevention Checklist
Digital Security and Doxxing Prevention Checklist
July 2025
The following is a checklist for people concerned about digital security and doxxing, whether you are a journalist or someone whose name or face appears in media or social media, compiled by Interrupting Criminalization.
While there is no way to 100 percent guarantee that your personal information will not be made public, there are many steps you can take to clean up your digital presence so that it’s more difficult for people to hack your accounts, find your home address, email, or personal phone, or track down other information about you such as your legal name or your family members’ information.
Lista de verificación para la seguridad digital y la prevención del doxxing
Actualizado en julio de 2025
Para aquellas personas preocupadas por la seguridad digital y el doxxing, ya sean periodistas o personas cuyo nombre o rostro aparecen en los medios de comunicación o en las redes sociales, les ofrecemos esta lista de verificación.
Aunque no es posible garantizar al 100 % que su información personal no se hará pública, existen varias medidas que puede tomar para limpiar su presencia digital y así dificultar el hackeo de sus cuentas, que encuentren su dirección, su correo electrónico o teléfono personal, o que rastreen otro tipo de información sobre usted, como su nombre legal o datos de sus familiares. Todos los vínculos son para información en español, a menos que se indique lo contrario.
The Digital Security and Doxxing Prevention Checklist was created and shared during an online Resistance Lab for Journalists and Media Makers, as part of Interrupting Criminalization’s Abolition Journalism Fellowship.
This Fellowship works to support and expand the network of abolitionist journalists across the U.S.; provides messaging, communications, and journalism skills support to grassroots abolitionist groups; and continues to break down the false barrier between “activist” and “journalist” by convening spaces inclusive of both, and creating movement-driven infrastructure for journalism.
Learn more about this Fellowship, Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace. and various projects here.