Complete manual/47/en

Data generated by our digital actions can be bought and sold to advertisers and governments, and used in various ways to control, suppress, or silence activists, domestic partners or organisations. Aggregated and analysed user data can be used to create harassment strategies that damage your reputation or attack you for your views or beliefs. All of the aforementioned actors can have access to your data. They might access it in different ways, including surveillance of your activities, physically accessing your unencrypted devices, exploiting how data is shared between applications, or through researching publicly available data sources about you. They can use some of this data to locate new and unknown sources and types of data about you, and then eventually aggregate and analyse what they have collected to infer things about your life and your behaviour.