🧵 Attending a protest? These tips are useful to keep yourself and others around you safe: 1) if you can afford it, take a burner phone w you; leave main phone at home.

This will ensure your info is safe on the main phone, & if anyone tries to geotrack, your main phone isn't present there.

This also protects your phone from being confiscated in case arrests happen.

🚨 The Pakistan govt just approved the data protection law that you must pay attention to.

I read it so you don't have to (even though you should).

Here's a long thread on the law and just some of the things that are very worrying. - Starting w the process of passing the law: No one has seen the officially passed law. We got a copy titled "Final Draft" with no date through sources in media.

Laws that are passed behind closed doors are always intended to stifle civil liberties & never in favour of citizens.