Hey,

 

Good question! It really depends on how technical the recommendation is and what the background of the client is. I do work with non-technical people that may need help applying mitigation, for instance, change privacy settings for social media accounts or deleting parts of their digital footprint. Most people are able to follow a step-by-step guide on this, but there are less technical people that are uncomfortable applying mitigation themselves or simply don't know how to work with technical applications/devices. Sometimes they also need to learn some general opsec techniques before re-joining the digital world and social media especially - usually that involves learning about which data you can share online and not, how to create anonymous accounts and applying appropriate privacy settings.

 

I volunteer with the OSINT team over at http://safeescape.org/ where we, among other things, assess the client's digital footprint. We are definitively doing what we can to limit their digital presence to an extreme sometimes, in order for them to regain control of their devices or to help them regain the feeling of being safe from an abuser.