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We are collecting here summaries and insights from interviews with Tails users.
For privacy reasons, the name and organization of the interviewees were changed, the interviews were translated and slightly rephrased, and the interviewees reviewed the text before publication.
BOAK, January 2023
BOAK is an anarchist organization who use Tails to organize direct action against the Russian army during the war in Ukraine.
Gabriela, November 2022
Gabriela is a feminist hacker who has been training low-income women from the Bahia region on using Tails.
Read the interview with Gabriela
Araceli, June 2022
Araceli is a sociologist from Mexico. She used Tails to research very sensitive topics like migration, human trafficking, and drug trafficking.
Read the interview with Araceli
Lucas, May 2022
Lucas is a filmmaker from Mexico working on the topic of mass surveillance. He's discovering Tails as a safe space for creativity.
Rafael, May 2022
Rafael is an activist in Mexico City. He uses Tails to organize workshops about digital security for grassroots organizations.
Read the interview with Rafael
Daniel, March 2022
Daniel used Tails to investigate pedocriminal forums on the Darknet and take down 13.5 terabytes of photos and videos of child abuse.
Read the interview with Daniel
Roberto, October 2019
Roberto is a journalist and works for an organization that does investigative journalism. I'm in charge of being the first filter for the information that arrives on Leaks, which is an alliance of news rooms across the country.
Read the interview with Roberto
Bea, August 2018
Bea is from North America but lives in Latin America where she does political work as a volunteer in a grassroots organization.
Claudia and Felix, January 2018
Claudia and Felix are reporters working in a journalists organization in Latin America. They investigate and report on issues such as human-rights violations, enforced disappearances, drug trafficking but always with a focus on the social impacts.
Read the interview with Claudia and Felix
Joana and Orlando, January 2018
Joana and Orlando are investigative journalists and human-rights defenders in Latin America. They work in an organization that investigates and reports on private companies in Latin America, fighting for transparency and accountability and denouncing human-right violations of these companies, especially towards local communities.
Read the interview with Joana and Orlando
Mathias, December 2017
Mathias is a 25 years old video technician living in the north of france. He is also a punk hardcore singer, and is involved in several struggles against the capitalist world.
Read the interview with Mathias
Daan, December 2017
Daan is a 18 years old ICT (information and communications technology) student and a security researcher. He lives in the Netherlands and cares a lot about privacy.
Charles, December 2017
Charles is 30 years old and lives in North America. He is a political activist working on law reform at the state level. He cares about free software and calls himself a "purist". He is part of an organization that provides computers and cell phones with free software (libreboot, Replicant) to people.
Read the interview with Charles
Miguel, May 2017
Miguel is a 20 years old statistics student in Brazil. He is part of a collective that works on online privacy and security.
Read the interview with Miguel
Sophia, May 2017
Sophia is 30 years old, lives in Brazil and has two jobs: she is a teacher and a system administrator.
Read the interview with Sophia
Isabella, May 2017
Isabella is a 50 years old Debian user living in Brazil. She used to be a journalist at a magazine that talked a lot about FOSS (among other things), then got in touch with people working on privacy enhancing technologies (PET) and switched jobs: she now works with a collective that defends freedom and privacy online, learns about privacy tools and does advocacy for them.
Read the interview with Isabella
Bernardo, May 2017
Bernardo is a 37 years old public administration teacher and social science researcher in Brazil. He studies the way social movements use Internet communication tools. He discovered Tails after the Snowden leaks, via a hackers collective and the homepage of the Tor website.
Read the interview with Bernardo
Pedro, May 2017
Pedro is 23 years old and studies applied mathematics in college in Brazil. He has been a Linux user since 11 years; Qubes OS is now his main operating system.
Margarita, March 2017
Margarita is a digital security consultant in Latin America. She used to develop autonomous communication infrastructures and is now focusing on training human-right defenders and organizations in digital security. She has been presenting Tails mostly to two different public:
Read the interview with Margarita
Helen, March 2017
Helen is a digital security trainer working in an organization defending the right for free speech in North America and working with both large news organizations and freelance journalists.
Ernesto, March 2017
Ernesto is working in the social science department of a University in Latin America where he does communication, web development, and video. He is also active in a local hacklab where he has a community TV and does video editing with free software.
Read the interview with Ernesto
Ray, March 2017
Ray is a security consultant and trainer in Africa.
Adam, March 2017
Adam is an investigative journalist working in an organization raising awareness around State surveillance and digital freedom in Western Europe. He has been using lots of Tor in different environments for years.
Alex, March 2017
Alex is a journalist working for a big news room in Western Europe.
Jeanne, February 2017
Jeanne has been working as an independent journalist for 5-6 years in Western Europe. She writes stories that she sells to many different newspapers. She is also active in a not-for-profit resource center and coworking space for independent journalists in her city where she advocates for privacy to the local press. She runs Ubuntu on her PC and can handle it all-right with some help from her geek friends.