# [Protecting abortion activists in
Brazil](
https://tails.boum.org/news/story_protecting_abortion_activists/index.en.html)
In August, we traveled to Brazil to learn how to improve Tails for the many
people fighting for social change there. We trained 34 people on Tails:
activists, journalists, feminists, and human rights defenders.
We also met Gabriela, a feminist hacker who has been training low-income women
from the Bahia region on using Tails.
Gabriela introduced these women to Tails by mixing up local culture and
privacy technology and presenting Tails as a _patu a_, a type of Brazilian
protection amulet that hides the USB stick in jewelry.
These women didn't have computers of their own and used the computers at work
or in university or the computers of their husbands and boyfriends. Tails is
useful for them to work on reproductive rights but also to protect their
personal data from intrusive boyfriends.
Women working on reproductive rights understand very easily the importance of
privacy tools like Tails because a single mistake can compromise an entire
organization and get them in trouble with the police.
Some of them had their home raided by the police after being denounced for
their work on abortion. All the information about their patients was not in
their phones, but in their Tails amulet, and the police couldn't find any
evidence about their work.
[Read our full interview with
Gabriela.](
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/user_experience/interviews/gabriela/)
As the access to safe abortion continues to be problematic in too many
countries around the world, we are very interested in getting in touch with
more reproductive rights activists who are already using Tails or want to
learn how to use it.
Get in touch with us at [tails@???](
mailto:tails@boum.org) ([OpenPGP
key](
https://tails.boum.org/tails-email.key)).
URL:
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