If your plans for this weekend involve being outdoors voicing your displeasure with *gestures* the entire situation, just sayin', my colleagues have a guide that you should read.
https://www.theverge.com/21276979/phone-protest-demonstration-activism-digital-how-to-security-privacy
https://www.theverge.com/21276979/phone-protest-demonstration-activism-digital-how-to-security-privacy
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The legal consensus appears to be they are also 5th amendment speech
The point is that patterns locks are at least as good as passwords wrt the 5th amendment protection mentioned in the article.
https://lokiexcelsiorsmith.substack.com/p/a-portrait-of-the-citizen-as-data?r=fd4u4
…planning to leave my phone home.
If there is trouble at a protest, like there was with the BLM protests, are there any suggestion for how to find a lawyer (for that one phone call I’m intitled to make)?
ACLU?
Civil Liberties Lawyer?
Occupy?
If you must bring your smartphone:
1. Operate your camera while the phone is locked.
2. Disable biometric security.
3. Use a complex passcode for your lock screen
4. Do not unlock your phone for the police or anyone you do not trust.
6. Don't dox the people you know by keeping their private information and names associated with their numbers.
7. Ditch smart phones in general.
Thank you, this is helpful!
For experimental use:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
Set up a primary and secondary profile. Have one of the profiles to only has essential, private apps. Use that profile when at protests.
I use this, plus a VPN. No Google apps.
Yes it's dangerous at political events. Cops use stingray (ISMI catchers) and gather all communication and personal data of everyone there.
https://www.cloudwards.net/how-to-block-stingray-surveillance/
https://protonvpn.com/pricing
Not making excuses for them, just pointing out the root of all these problems.
The irony is, as of now, OEM unlockable Google Pixel phones (7 and up)can be converted to the most secure phone available.
If you're really paranoid, have someone else buy it for you.
😳Unless you’re planning a war strategy.
"The right of the people peaceably to assemble."