Digital Exhaust Opt Out Guide

 

The FBI's digital security guide for local police actually has good OPSEC advice for the rest of us too.

Digital Exhaust Opt Out Guide for Law Enforcement Partners and Their Families is a 354-page guidebook that provides police officers with suggestions on how to minimize the "potential for threat actors to identify, target, and track anyone affiliated with Law Enforcement via use of open source, Internet-based services offering searches of data aggregated about the American public."

Here is the stated purpose of the guide:

The Digital Exhaust Opt Out Guide is a new publication; no previous versions are available. This Guide was created to mitigate risk for Law Enforcement employees’ and their families as it pertains to protecting their personal information, which is vulnerable to exploitation. This risk includes potential for threat actors to identify, target, and track anyone affiliated with Law Enforcement via use of open source, Internet-based services offering searches of data aggregated about the American public. To mitigate this risk, this Guide was created as a first-of-its-kind aid for the Law Enforcement community in highlighting and presenting recommendations to reduce these vulnerabilities. This document is for informational purposes only.