# **Mass Surveillance in America is out of control.** Federal Agencies compile social media data into lists of dissenters and "domestic terrorists". [AI surveillance infrastructures](https://investigate.afsc.org/company/palantir) cover every populated area and track your every action. Masked Paramilitary Agents hack your phone, abduct you, and execute you in the street while tailored information bubbles make sure your neighbors let it happen. The Authoritarian State is here, and it exerts power by dominating your digital landscape. **It's time to do something about it.** ***And it turns out you can, pretty damn easily.*** ___ **The National Data Strike** calls on every American to **spend a single afternoon** [[Data Strike Guide|following The Data Strike Guide]], locking down their data, and depriving the digital surveillance industry of its vital life-essence. **Additionally**, it calls for a **Global Social Media Blackout** on **March 15th, 2026**. No posting, no scrolling, no logging-in. **You should still boycott the tech industry everywhere you can**, but the #datastrike itself doesn't require you to withhold from anything. In fact, even though it has the potential to permanently alter our digital landscape, it mostly offers tangible improvements to your life. All you need to do is follow the guide, share it, and help your loved ones implement it. It's a simple set of security measures **that you can complete in 1 hour**, by clicking through the interactive [[Data Strike Checklist]] and referencing the comprehensive [[Data Strike Guide]]. ##### The Core Concepts --- ###### **Isolating your online identities** - Emails, online accounts, financial transactions, location data, and many other things track your identity across the internet and provide a massive surface for surveillance. - We'll delete unused accounts and minimize information that could link them together. ___ ###### **Devaluing your online activity** - You don't have to log-in to use social media, and either way you can increase anonymity with a secure browser. Just don't use the apps anymore. - We'll block all ads, web-trackers, cookies, and use a VPN to make our online activity worthless. ___ ###### **Driving Independent Action** - Put bluntly: No one is coming to save you. Your family doesn't know what to do. Your friends will not act on their own. - This guide provides a framework to discuss these issues with your loved ones and drive them to action. Not just to this method of resistance, but others as well. *It's something you can accomplish together.* --- ###### **Building Community-based Networks** - Independent, community-based information networks have spawned the solutions to every single problem that has ever been solved. That is a literal statement. - If we care enough to educate those around us, and encourage others to do the same, we spread the seeds that grow the solution. It happens faster than you'd think. ___ ##### **The Three Pillars of the Strike** 1. Privatizing your online accounts and replacing your Google, Apple, and Windows ecosystems with a secure ecosystem like [Proton](https://proton.me/) or [Tuta Mail](https://tuta.com/secure-email). 2. Providing you with safe, tracker-less, and ad-free ways to use social media, securing your devices, and separating your online identities. 3. Purging the incredible amount of information that Tech Companies and Data-brokers have collected on you with a [data-suppression service](https://consumerfinancereviewboard.org/best-data-removal-fraud-protection-services-2025/), like [Optery](https://www.optery.com/), [Incogni](https://incogni.com/) or [DeleteMe](https://www.deleteme.com/). ___ **If you've been trying to find a way to make a difference, this is it.** **The impact will be massive.** ___ ###### **Quick Navigation** (full menu top-left) - | [[Data Strike and Digital Surveillance Breakdown|National Data Strike Rundown]] - | [[Data Strike Guide|The Comprehensive Data Strike Guide]] - | [[Data Strike Checklist|Data Strike Quick Checklist]] - | [[Digital Surveillance and the Global Rise of Authoritarianism|ICE, Palestine, and Digital Surveillance Article]] ___ ##### **How to start:** Take **6 minutes** to read the [[Data Strike and Digital Surveillance Breakdown|National Data Strike Breakdown]], **immediately share it**, then follow the [[Data Strike Checklist]], referencing the [[Data Strike Guide]] as needed. The National Data Strike doesn't have an organizing body and doesn't need one. **But it does require active, personal effort from everyone involved.** Luckily, it's not much effort. If you share it with at least **10 people**, **post about it publicly**, and **actively help your community implement it**, you can spread it fast and b piss off a lot of very wealthy people. **Make it happen.** ___ ##### **How you can tangibly and individually benefit:** If for some reason you don't care about every single thing everyone does being tracked, compiled into a dataset, and sold directly to a militarized federal agency, **following this guide lets you stream content and use the internet without ads, legally, for free**. Your VPN will also let you avoid facial recognition scans and forced account creation. **Additionally**, [Optery](https://www.optery.com/referral-program/), [Incogni](https://support.incogni.com/hc/en-us/articles/22720503252242-What-rewards-do-I-get-for-referring-friends-to-Incogni) and [DeleteMe](https://help.joindeleteme.com/hc/en-us/articles/29212131923091-Does-DeleteMe-have-a-Referral-Program) have referral programs that **pay commission** **when your friends use your referral link**. You probably want to sign-up with a suppression service first. [Proton has a referral program](https://proton.me/support/referral-program) that will let you and a friend both pay for 2 months of service. The referral programs are regular offerings from these companies, and have nothing to with the #datastrike. The business models and designated goals of these companies align with the principles of the #datastrike, and their referral systems perfectly facilitate everything we're trying to accomplish. **You have many tangible incentives to participate in the Data Strike**, apart from it being a **huge quality-of-life boost** and **beneficial for the whole of mankind**. **--In no way, shape, or form is the author of this guide affiliated with any of the companies discussed within, nor were they informed of their inclusion in this guide prior to its release--** If you just want to learn more, please read the list of very well-sourced and [[Quick Fact Sheet|terrifying facts]] or [[Digital Surveillance and the Global Rise of Authoritarianism|this article]], which explains the deep connection between ICE, Digital Surveillance, and the US-Israeli Genocide. %% ic4J2E+4WawqUa4b5YAKbQ== %% %% The author of this document has an AES key that will decrypt the above string to: *ILL* %% %% Any primary distribution is also PGP-signatured. %% %% This document contains political analysis, individual cybersecurity advice, and community-focused economic resistance measures created with the intent to mass-distribute and drive people to action. %% %% *There is an inherent danger to something like that.* Please, help make this guide more safe, more accessible, and more effective. %% %% If you have any corrections, additions, advice, or requests, don't hesitate to reach out. %% %% If there is any feasible way we can help each other, let's make it happen. %% *Organize Anonymously.* *This isn't a Q-Anon thing, it's just a good idea.* *15.3.26* *Version 1.1* *Public Release*