• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Probably shouldn’t be bringing a phone at all.

    BUT if you are, best to keep it powered off and in something that thoroughly blocks RF, like a purpose built bag or wrapped completely in aluminum foil. Also, turn off finger print and face scan unlocking, you can be directed by law enforcement to preform physical actions such as looking at the screen or putting your finger on the reader, but they can not legally demand you to put in a passcode. Memorize any numbers you need to know before hand, if you get detained and need to make a call, they will not let you use your phone for it, they may allow you to get numbers out of it, but only by giving them the passcode and them retrieving the information from the phone for you, meaning that they now have full access to the contents of the device. Most importantly though SHUT THE FUCK UP

    Even better, bring a prepaid phone, ideally one purchased with cash that you haven’t been using anywhere you normally spend time.

    Much of this is overkill and yet also only will do so much, but it is fairly easy small steps to take that can save you and people around you a lot of heartache.

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    Eh this was solid advice 15 years ago, but today there is little chance that anything that happens during a protest, isnt already being recorded by cops, news crews, helis, drones. The difference is, they wont use their footage to prove crimes committed by the cops and military, but you can.

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        1 day ago

        If you take a picture while someone is throwing a molotov, could inverting the colour of their clothing THEN blurring it actually help? As they wouldn’t be able to see clearly but they would be trying to look for other pictures of someone wearing the wrong colour jumper.

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          It might depend. If it’s not the only piece of evidence being used, then even an edited photo could be used as a data point to confirm another unedited one.

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        1 day ago

        Yes, but the implication is that the thing you post could be used against you or others no? What im saying is that anything you could post (in terms of pictures) has already been recorded by the people that would use it against you.