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These personas are fictitious but concrete representations of the people using Tails. We use these personas to keep in mind who we are working for, what are their needs, and what Tails should do for them.

These personas come from collective discussions about who we want to help when building Tails, [[interviews with users|blueprint/interviews]], and other sources of information about Internet freedom.

Primary persona

Riou represents the users that are the most important to us.

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Riou

The Censorship Evader

To change our country and fight censorship, we're more helpful in the streets than in jail.
|riou]]

Secondary personas

Cris and Kim represent other users are are also important to us.

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Cris

The Information Gatherer

I want thugs and corrupted politicians to get in trouble. Not my sources and partners.
|cris]] [[

Kim

The Surveilled at Home

I need to get out of here but I'm so scared. Will I make it safe? What will come next?
|kim]]

Other personas

Derya represents users that we care about but that aren't so important to us.

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Derya

The Privacy Advocate

Governments and companies know way too much. Everybody has something to hide.
|derya]]

External resources about personas

General:

Other personas for privacy and security:

Data sources:

Archive of the process

Comments and prioritization (August 2018)

Based on the skeletons drafted in 2018, we created posters to illustrate our draft personas:

We asked 14 contributors to:

Skeletons and comments (Avril–July 2018)

From the user goals identified in 2017, we drafted 4 skeletons and asked the community to comment on them during our monthly meetings in [[April|contribute/meetings/201804]], [[May|contribute/meetings/201805]], [[June|contribute/meetings/201806]], and [[July|contribute/meetings/201807]] 2018.

User goals for using Tails (August 2017)

A. I want to hide information about myself

B. I want to communicate and collaborate securely

C. I want to store information safely

D. I want to leave no trace on the computer

E. I want information to be free

F. I don't want my data to be gathered by corporations and governments

Collective process to identity user goals (August 2017)

Summary of a 2 hours session with 12 core contributors.

This process is inspired by the workshop described in The Essential Persona Lifecycle by Tamara Adlin and John Pruitt, Chapter 4 Persona conception and gestation.

Collective brainstorming of uses of Tails (August 2016)