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Counter-Surveillance Tactics

This field guide provides counter-surveillance tactics for evading state, corporate, and private surveillance systems in 2025. It covers visual disruption of facial recognition, vehicle and transit obfuscation, digital hygiene practices, and behavioral techniques for becoming unreadable to tracking technologies. It is intended for trans people, organizers, and other targeted individuals seeking to protect themselves from profiling and monitoring.

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Designed to be printed and distributed. Published August 31, 2026.

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