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In October 2014, Tails was being used by more than 11 500 people daily. The profile of Tor and Tails users is very diverse. This diversity increases the anonymity provided by those tools for everyone by making it harder to target and to identify a specific type of user. From the various contacts that we have with organizations working on the ground, we know that Tails has been used by:
[Jean-Marc Manach](http://jean-marc.manach.net/), a journalist based in France and specialized in online privacy said that "war reporters have to buy helmets, bullet-proof vests and rent armored cars; journalists using the Internet for their investigations are much luckier: to be as secured as war reporters, they only have to download Tails, burn it on a CD, install it on a SD card, and learn the basics of information and communication security, and it's free!"
Tails has been used in combination with [Martus](https://www.martus.org/), an information system used to report on human rights abuses, to allow [Tibetan communities in exile](http://benetech.org/2014/01/07/a-rat-in-the-registry-the-case-for-martus-on-tails/) to protect themselves from targeted malware attacks.
The [National Democratic Institute](https://www.ndi.org/), a Washington-based democracy support organization that works in more than 70 countries around the world, has used Tails to [help human rights defenders to communicate securely](https://www.coe.int/en/web/world-forum-democracy/2013-forum).For instance, NDI used Tails to created a [data collection system in Belarus](http://cryptome.org/2014/07/tails-belarus-elections.pdf)to help opposition forces to collect, store and manage voter information.
During the last years, we noticed that the use of Tor and Tails systematically peaks when countries face national emergencies. Even if Tails represents a small amount of the global Tor usage, it is advertised by the Tor Project as the safest platform to protect from strong adversaries.
Between January 25, the day the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began, and January 27 2011, the number of [Tor users in Egypt](https://blog.torproject.org/blog/recent-events-egypt) was multiplied at least by 4. On January 27, the Egyptian goverment decided to halt Internet access accross the country.
The Tor Project has been working with organizations fighting against domestic violence such as [NNEDV](http://nnedv.org/), [Transition House](http://www.transitionhouse.org/), and [Emerge](http://www.emergedv.com/) to help survivors escape digital surveillance from their abuser and report on their situation. As [domestic abuse goes digital](http://betaboston.com/news/2014/05/07/as-domestic-abuse-goes-digital-shelters-turn-to-counter-surveillance-with-tor/), circumvention tools like Tor and Tails end up as one of the only options.
