Investigative reporter Paul Radu reveals his methods of tracking corruption and organised crime by "...

When you use a tool, your data land ups with the company that owns that tool. The only way to really...

Brett Scott, publisher of Heretic's Guide to Global Finance, describes his work as a "friendly guide...

A comprehensive tool by Tactical Tech to teach activists the basics of evidence-based activism.

Based on English law and written by British lawyer Korieh Duodu, the guide aims at helping investiga...

A deep dive on scraping and parsing, reverse engineering a digital document to make the data in it m...

A Tactical Tech website that allows you to trace your “digital shadow” - all the data you disseminat...

Tactical Tech's free online book about how advocates and activists use visual elements in their camp...

Tactical Tech resources that show you how to remain anonymous online, how to protect your data and c...

The Kit is a collaborative, self-learning resource that makes investigative techniques and tools use...

Created by Tactical Tech in 2008 and updated in 2010, the booklet demystifies the step-by-step proce...

A list of helpful resources addressed to civil society members facing stress, threat and trauma in t...

A project by the Open Knowledge Foundation teaching you all you need to know about dealing with data...

Guide featuring a step-by-step approach to setting up a new website when privacy is a significant co...

A guide that looks at how metadata has been used to expose, protect and verify abuses and excesses o...

Resources you can use to learn about phone security.

In 2006, a group of Bahraini activists used Google Earth to view palaces and land owned by the elite...

A playful art project to inform citizens about the dangers and capabilities of drones worldwide.

A handbook, in which author James Briddle gives guidance on how to draw a drone shadow, including ad...

A Tactical Tech series of short animations featuring the character ONO, a friendly robot whose missi...

This guide presents a series of steps that can be used to automate the collection of online HTML tab...

Using search engines to their full capacity to expose the unfindable.

Many of us currently live and work in a challenging physical isolation imposed on us by the COVID-19...

A guide about using Tor ("the onion router") to read, verify and process leaked data, which might co...

A selections of topics, approaches and ideas for those who are thinking of getting better at working...

A guide to verifying digital content and navigating today's (dis)information environment.

The Geojournalism Toolkit was born when a group of environmental journalists felt a new approach was...

A tongue-in-cheek "Idiot's Guide to Money Laundering" created by Global Witness, an organisation spe...

A how-to guide covering the basic steps for using open-source metadata extraction software on your d...

Misinformation can spread at a feverish pace and in this chapter we will address the essential verif...

Using VPN over Tor for a secure anonymous connection to the internet

To lookup where domain names are registered you can use a database that stores the information of re...