Pride & Protection: What AI Knows About You — And How to Fight Back
- Yesenia Yser
- Jun 22
- 3 min read
📬 June 2025 Newsletter | Brought to you by InfiniteIsh1
🧠 Webinar Recap: Generative AI vs. Your Privacy
Webinar Recap – May 24, 2025
AI isn’t just smart — it’s watching.From predicting your location through photos, to scraping personal details from your posts and prompts, AI is now a tool in the hands of trackers, traffickers, and data miners.
⚠️ This isn’t the future — it’s already here.
We explored:
What your metadata reveals
Why your digital habits matter
How to build a privacy-first mindset in an AI-saturated world
Awareness is your strongest shield. AI is powerful — but so are you.
📺 Missed the webinar? 👉 Watch the full recap now
🌈 Pride, Privacy & Protection: What You Need to Know
LGBTQ+ individuals — especially trans women and youth — face disproportionately high risks of trafficking, grooming, and surveillance.
📊 23% of trafficking survivors identify as LGBTQ+, according to Polaris Project. These threats often begin online — where predators and data brokers exploit vulnerabilities created by family rejection, displacement, and lack of digital protection.
🚫 In some countries, queer content is criminalized. Elsewhere, advertisers and tracking tools create deeply invasive digital profiles. Even popular apps like Grindr and TikTok have leaked GPS data, putting users in danger.
🔎 How Does This Happen?
Traffickers and bad actors exploit digital spaces to identify, track, and manipulate vulnerable individuals — especially within the LGBTQ+ community.
They may:
📍 Track your location through tagged photos, stories, or check-ins
🧾 Scrape public data from dating apps, forums, and social profiles
🚨 Exploit leaked identity info to out users or target them in unsafe regions
Your online presence can be weaponized — unless you know how to defend it.
🔐 How to Fight Back
✅ Use Signal or other end-to-end encrypted messaging apps
✅ Disable GPS/location tracking on social and dating apps
✅ Keep accounts separate — avoid linking usernames, emails, or photos
✅ Use ProtonMail, SimpleLogin, or alias emails when signing up
✅ Browse with a VPN, especially in high-risk or censored regions
🏳️🌈 Your identity should be protected, celebrated — and never exposed without your consent.
🧩 Final Message
This month, we peeled back the layers of AI — and discovered that protection today means more than firewalls or passwords. It means solidarity.
🛡️ In tech, on the mat, and in our everyday lives, true defense is collective — a network of allies who know how to hold the line, ask the hard questions, and say, “I’ve got you.”
As we celebrate Pride, we honor those who show up, speak out, and stand firm.
Pride is power. Protection is love. And knowledge is our shield.Together, we move smarter, safer, and stronger.
— The Lioness Instincts Team 🦁💙
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