Smartphone, don't spy!
Smartphone checklist: Migration, flight and asylum
Smartphone security is extremely important for asylum seekers and refugees, as their devices are often the only way to stay in touch with relatives, lawyers or support networks. At the same time, smartphones contain sensitive information such as whereabouts, escape routes, identity documents or personal messages that could fall into the wrong hands if they are not adequately protected. Governments or criminal organizations misuse this data to track, monitor or exert pressure. A secure smartphone helps to protect your privacy, keep communications confidential and protect yourself from potential dangers such as deportation.
- You use strong passwords for unlocking
- Do without biometric unlocking
- You do not share or use images with your face
- You make regular backups
- Do not unlock your smartphone on demand
- You know your most important contacts by heart
- You have set up a screen lock
- Notifications on your lock screen are deactivated
- Your smartphones are encrypted
- You know important logins by heart
- You do without memory cards
- Activate two-step verification in your messengers
- You use disappearing messages
- Your name cannot be found on the internet
- You have deactivated USB debugging
- You have written down the unique numbers of your device
- You only use encrypted cloud storage
- You do without Apple devices
- You have already taken part in a cryptoparty
- You can switch off your devices quickly
- Dial emergency numbers such as 110 and 112 carefully
- You do not publish pictures with shadows and time
- You have sealed your device
- You do not register with your real data
- Check whether your messengers also work without a SIM card inserted
- You delete metadata from your pictures
- Switch off all electronic devices when you cross fortified border installations
- You have removed your sim card number
- Do not take your device with you to official appointments
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