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Post-Dobbs Digital Safety Kit

A practical threat-model checklist covering browser, messaging, search, period apps, and location, tracing every digital trail in a post-Roe environment.

What This Kit Covers and Why Digital evidence in reproductive health cases has not been hypothetical since at least 2022. The prosecutions documented by the Center for American Progress span multiple states and multiple types of evidence: text messages, search history, location data, purchase records. This kit does not address legal strategy. Consult a lawyer for that. It addresses the technical question: which of your digital activities creates records, where those records live, and what you can do to reduce unnecessary exposure. Work through each section in order. Some steps are quick changes to existing habits. Others require switching tools you may have used for years. Section 1: Browser and Search Your search history is the most direct record of what you were thinking and researching. Search: Switch your default search engine to DuckDuckGo or Brave Search for sensitive queries. Neither logs searches by IP address. For highest sensitivity searches, use Tor Browser. It routes traffic through multiple encrypted relays and makes the origin of a query technically difficult to trace. Avoid searching for sensitive topics on Google while signed into a Google account. Signed in search