The National Data Strike - Implementing a Data Strike in your Community

# **Mass Surveillance in America is out of control.** [Federal Agencies compile your social media activity](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/02/17/dhs-collecting-big-tech-users-personal-data-issuing-subpoenas-ice-related-criticism.html) into databases of dissenters and "domestic terrorists". [AI facial-recognition cameras](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY) cover every populated area and record your every action. [Masked Paramilitary Agents track your every move](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html), abduct you, and execute you in the street while [tailored information-bubbles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYfRhxStxRs) make sure your neighbors let it happen. Now, [self-proclaimed](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric) holy warriors [slaughter school-children](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab-girls-school-strike-as-israel-us-deny-involvement) as sacrifice for their christo-fascist Armageddon. [The Authoritarian State is here](https://investigate.afsc.org/company/palantir), and it maintains power by [dominating your digital landscape](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ice-surveillance-immigrants-protesters/). It's time to do something about it. *And it turns out you can, pretty damn easily.* --- **The Core Concept:** Digital security and data-privacy are the most potent economic resistance strategies available to you, and they help keep you safe from tech-oligarchs and totalitarian governments. ___ ### **The Plan** > **Part 1:** > **The National Data Strike calls on every American to complete three, simple actions.** 1. **Spend a single afternoon completing [[The First Step|The Data Strike Guide]].** - Secure your online accounts and devices. - Lock down your personal data. - Deprive the digital surveillance industry of its only product (you). 2. **Participate in the Global Social Media Blackout on March 15th**. #Blackout315 #NoKings #NoCaesars - No posting. - No scrolling. - No logging-in. 3. **Compile this guide with other resistance materials and distribute them both physically and digitally.** - Drop the link to this guide anywhere it fits. #datastrike - Post about the Data Strike on social media. Use [[Sharing Template|these templates]] to make it easy. - Educate those close to you and revitalize the independent, community-based [information networks](https://www.ynharari.com/book/nexus/) fundamental to any functioning, free society. - [Use this link](https://democracy.io/#!/) to message all your congresspeople at the same time: **You want the abolishment of ICE, an end to Commercial-State Surveillance, and a General Strike.** ___ >**Part 2:** >**The National Data Strike calls on every American to understand three specific concepts.** 1. **ICE is the most powerful secret police force to ever exist.** - No agency has ever had more devastating digital technology at their disposal or more potent of a propaganda network to justify their use to the public. - [ICE uses](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware) the [exact same tech](https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/) utilized by [the IDF](https://techstory.in/ice-acquires-israeli-built-spyware-graphite-reviving-controversial-surveillance-deal/) in the on-going [US-Israeli](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k17q7hdVsTA) [genocide](https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds). - **The same software used to track you is used to systematically murder the Palestinian People.** 2. **Information is power and information networks are a fundamental aspect of consciousness.** - Meaning, [[Data Strike Manifesto#A dismissal of the dismissals of digital surveillance and media-based manipulation infrastructure.|your internet and social media infrastructures are fundamental to who you are, how you think, and what you do]]. - Handing their reins to a cabal of billionaires is a bad idea. - Letting hoards of semi-autonomous AI agents inject individually-adaptive disinformation into them is also a bad idea. 3. **You can take back control your internet, your media, and your information networks by simply taking back control of your information**. - Your data. Your internet. Your devices. **It all starts there.** - Data-brokers, AI companies, and Social Media behemoths are a ripe target for economic attack. - You just need to understand the [[Data Strike Methodology]] and follow the [[The First Step|Data Strike Guide]]. The [[Data Strike Manifesto]] provides additional context and a wealth of academic sources. ___ **If you're sick of Tech Billionaires, AI-slop, and Rogue Federal Governments, this is how you fix it.** ___ ### **The Catch** >**The National Data Strike has no organizing body or driving force. It only exists as a collection of information that enables you to make a difference.** **It is:** - A [[Data Strike Manifesto|wealth of educational material]] about totalitarian governments, propaganda, and mass-surveillance for you to educate yourself and others. - A specific [[Sharing Template|system of sharing]] that allows you to [[How to Personally Benefit|financially benefit]] from propagating the strike and other resistance measures. - A myriad of [[Data Strike Fact Sheet|different facts]], talking points, and resources that can help you broach this subject with the people around you. - Everything you need to package it with **any additional resistance materials specific to your needs or your community** and distribute them digitally or physically (coming soon). ___ >**The safety of your community is your personal responsibility.** > >[Use this link](https://democracy.io/#!/) to message all your congresspeople at the same time: You want **the abolishment of ICE, an end to Commercial-State Surveillance, and a General Strike.** ___ ### **The Bottom Line** - The information in this guide can *help people keep themselves safe.* - If you use it to educate yourself and your community, *it will make a difference*. - This is the *only feasible way* for you to make a meaningful economic impact against the tech industry and the fascist administration they're enabling. - You can do it safely, from your own home, in an hour. >Americans cannot stay home from work without their lives falling apart, or meaningfully protest without risking life and limb. That's by design. --- *Data Strikes are a groundbreaking, targeted economic resistance strategy. They represent the only viable option for actionable mass-opposition in the digital age.* *The National Data Strike disrupts the delicate balance of oppression by placing each of our hands on the scale.* *and it only takes an hour*. --- >If enough people educate their communities, take these measures, and make their voices heard, **all of this stops tomorrow**. > >That's a pretty bold statement. > >Evaluate that claim. Engage with this material. > >If it's true, **you have a moral imperative to help this information reach as many people as possible.** ___ ## **The Three Pillars of the Strike** 1. [[The Proton Ecosystem|Privatizing your online identity]] and debriding yourself from the digital surveillance infrastructure by [[Degoogle Your Life|replacing your Google, Apple, and Windows accounts]] with a secure ecosystem like [Proton](https://proton.me/) or [Tuta Mail](https://tuta.com/secure-email). 2. [[Securing Desktop#Using a Secure Browser|Providing you with safe web browsers]] that give you trackerless, ad-free ways to use the internet, and securing your [[Securing iPhone|iPhones]], [[Securing Android|Androids]], and [[Securing Desktop|Desktops\Laptops]]. 3. [[Data Suppression|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/). ## **Most help/Least effort** 1. [[Sharing Template|Just share the guide]] with one of the templates. Post the link in relevant places. 2. Sign up with a [[Data Suppression]] service. 3. Download a [[Securing Desktop#Using a Secure Browser|secure desktop browser]] and a [[Securing iPhone#**SnowHaze for iOS**|secure iPhone browser]] or [[Securing Android#Using a Secure Browser|secure Android browser]]. **Restrict your device privacy settings as much as possible.** 4. Switch from **G-mail** to [[The Proton Ecosystem]], or any other privatized emailing service. Use a **VPN**. 5. [Use this link](https://democracy.io/#!/) to message all your congresspeople at the same time: You want **the abolishment of ICE, an end to Commercial-State Surveillance, and a General Strike.** ___ ## **The way to really make a Difference** - Take **10 minutes** to read the [[Data Strike Methodology]]. - Then take [[The First Step]] or follow the [[Data Strike Checklist]]. **You can quickly reference the full guide by clicking on the linked headings.** - Read the [[Data Strike Manifesto]], for additional context and academic support. --- >**The National Data Strike doesn't have an organizing body, funding, partnered businesses, creators, or sponsors. It doesn't need any.** > >**But it does need active, personal effort from everyone who reads this.** ___ **Luckily, it's not much effort. Here's the pitch:** - [[How to Personally Benefit|You personally benefit]] from all of the measures and get paid to spread them around with Optery's ["no sign-up" referral system](https://www.optery.com/referral-program/) (or other data-suppression services) - You *don't* give anything up, beyond the additional boycotts you should participate in. - You *don't* continuously maintain these measures. Most of them are one and done. - You *don't* even need to leave your house. ___ >All you need to do is [[How to Share|share the guide]] individually with at least 10 people, **post about it publicly**, and **actively help your community implement it**. > >**Every time you post the link, you make a difference.** > >[[Sharing Template|Here's an easy template to copy/paste]]. ___ ## **The Indisputable Evidence that Data Strikes work** **(mobile nav top-left)** The Data Strike methodology is proven by a substantial stack of academic research that falls into three main categories: 1. **Studies that actively demonstrate how even simple data-privacy measures erode the function of algorithmic content feeds and targeted ad-delivery systems.** 2. **Real-world analysis of the economic outcomes of the GDRP privacy regulations adopted by the EU.** Every analysis, study, or summary of events essentially says the same thing: **Its economic impact was felt around the globe** and it changed the technological landscape of the European Union. **The Data Strike is a stronger measure than the GDRP by an order of magnitude.** 3. **Centuries of research, analysis, philosophy, and discussion** about communication systems and information networks describing them as the core, fundamental aspect of any society, community, or group of living beings. ___ >The [[Data Strike Manifesto]] and [[Data Strike Methodology]] link every critical claim to an academic source and deeply describe the issue of mass digital surveillance. A comprehensive report will be uploaded soon. ___ **Quick Facts:** 1. [This research](https://brenthecht.com/publications/thewebconference2019_datastrikes.pdf) demonstrates that even basic privacy measures... - Reduce the effectiveness of targeted ads, **compromising ad-revenue**. - Reduce the quality of algorithmic content feeds, **driving people away from the platform**. - Compound their effects over time at a **30%** adoption rate from the **diminishing platform usability** and subsequent **population drop-off**. --- 2. [This study]([https://www.nber.org/papers/w32146](https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32146/w32146.pdf)) shows that the GDRP... - Increased the cost of data-harvesting by **20%**. - Reduced the active data-storage of corporations by **26%**. - Reduced the amount of active data-processing by **15%**. --- 3. [This study](https://www.nber.org/digest/202207/impacts-european-unions-data-protection-regulations?page=1&perPage=50) shows that the GDRP wiped out an entire market of data-scrounging apps. It caused... - A **6x quarterly increase** in apps exiting app stores, - A **47%** drop in new apps entering the market, - A **10%** reduction in data-requests from the apps that did make it to market. **That is an entire market of scamming and data-harvesting wiped out with a single legislative action. It's possible. The target is clear. We just need to make it happen.** --- >It's difficult to estimate, but many [unofficial, independent sources](https://www.permission.ai/blog/how-much-is-data-worth-the-value-of-your-personal-data) and suggest that an individual data-broker makes **$1000 - $3000 in profit, per person, per year**. That's just the initial, basic sale price, and **does not include the substantial-- and frankly, incomprehensible-- benefits of actually utilizing the data, or its value when processed into specific types of datasets**. Each data broker generally harvests data on *billions* of people. > >The efficacy is inarguable. The target is wide-open. Read the [[Data Strike Fact Sheet]] to understand the scope of the consequences if we don't strike now. ___ This site contains 200+ links to academic sources, educational content, and useful resources related to privacy, data-security, and the cruel digital systems used by Authoritarian governments to maintain power and circumvent the safeguards of any political system. **Applying this material can:** - Help individuals understand ICE's unconstitutional digital surveillance technologies. - Prevent you and your loved ones from being added to databases of "domestic terrorists". - **Enable every other economic resistance movement currently underway.** Specifically, it will enable a **General Strike**. Until we force their hand, **the Democratic Establishment will not resist.** **ICE's overwhelming totalitarian infrastructure fits perfectly within their vision for America as well.** Establishment Democrats are only working to mitigate the public backlash from this infrastructure's construction. **Politicians are not going to save us, Americans must act on their own initiative.** *You must act on your own initiative.* The Data Strike guide **Make it happen.** ___ **If you're still not convinced:** - Here's a [[Data Strike Fact Sheet|terrifying factsheet]]. - Here's a [[Data Strike Manifesto|detailed explanation of why this matters]]. - Here's how [[How to Personally Benefit|you can tangibly, individually, and immediately benefit]]. - **The basic methodology is described below.** ___ ## **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 review our security settings, delete unused accounts, and remove/falsify 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 to the people pulling the strings. ___ ###### **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. - We'll discuss these issues with our loved ones and drive them to action. Not just to this method of resistance, but others as well. *It's something you can only accomplish together.* --- ###### **Revitalizing Community Information Networks** - Local, independent information networks have spawned the solutions to every single problem that has ever been solved. [That is a literal statement](https://www.keetabikeeda.in/post/in-depth-review-summary-and-analysis-of-yuval-noah-harari-s-nexus-the-evolution-of-information-ne). They'll solve this one too. - If we care enough to educate those around us, and encourage others to do the same, we spread the seeds that grow the solution. They grow pretty fast. [[Data Strike Checklist|Get Started]] ___ **To be completely clear:** There is no feasible way for the author of this document to benefit from you sharing it. There are no personal referrals, no links to other personal works, and no outside affiliations. It isn't even possible to do data analytics on an Obsidian Notes publication without a purchased domain, so there aren't even metrics useful for professional self-promotion. This document was created for the sole purpose of giving people the tools and knowledge they need to protect themselves. There may be errors in the document, but they will be fixed. If you find an informational or methodological error, post on Twitter or BlueSky with the hashtags #datastrike and #error-report. This document and anything in it is free to be used, copied, or adapted for any benevolent, educational purposes, and for anti-ICE/Fascist/Mass surveillance activism. **However, the author reserves the right to take legal action if you attempt to commercialize any research, writing, or resource contained within, or use them towards any racist, disinformational, or antisemitic purposes.** The author of this document stands with both the Jewish and the Palestinian peoples-- and all other peoples-- as we dismantle the yoke of US imperialism, techno-fascist corporatism, and the utter dominance of global capital. ___ *Organize Anonymously.* *This isn't a Q-Anon thing, it's just a good idea.* *Version 1.1* *Public Release* %% 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. %% ___