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What to do if your phone falls into the wrong hands

The team of  Lviv Media Forum and  the Digital Security Laboratory  has collected 5 simple but effective tips to help save information if your phone falls into the wrong hands [occupier].

  1. Lock mobile screen with password (not with a graphic key). This will protect you if you are NOT required to unlock your phone.
  2. In all messengers, where possible (Signal, WhatsApp, etc.), set automatic deletion of information from chats. Manually delete all chats that look sensitive to you.
  3. If your phone is lost but you managed to get to a safe place with the Internet, then: log in to all your accounts, which were logged into the phone (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) and log out remotely; use the Find my iPhone / Find my Android service and remotely delete data from phones.
  4. If you have already lost your phone with a SIM card, you will not be able to log in to Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal again until it is restored.
  5. Let everyone know that the enemy may have access to your accounts, messages from there should not be trusted.

Read more digital security tips here: https://dslua.org/.