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Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 2 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The right to assemble and protest is enshrined in American law, but it can still be dangerous to hit the streets to make your voice heard. Your devices are a treasure trove of information about you, and you may not always know who's collecting that data. Take a few minutes before you go to assess your digital and physical safety. Even if you have nothing to hide, you don't want to accidentally give law enforcement officials any information you didn't intend to share. Follow these tips to lock down your phone before a protest or other peaceful assembly.

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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

These articles mean nothing. You have 2 options.

Leave ALL electronics at home and do not bring anything to the protest that connects to a tower or the internet.
Just deal with the fact you are being tracked and deal with it.

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Cant u just use encrypted messaging services like whatsapp signal telegram? SMS isn't encrypted. And this is also why you shouldn't give tech billionaire companies so much power as a nation lol they abuse ur privacy thats why I love how EU is still trying to protect our rights at least

[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Not relevant. Unless you use airplane mode, it will be visible that your phone was at the place.

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[+] onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Whatsapp and Signal are US-based, which means that they will give up your data on the first request.

This is true. In regards to Signal, they do always comply with the governments request for data. The things is, Signal has next to no data on you. So when they comply, they give them everything they have (which is next to nothing). You can see everything they have given up here: https://signal.org/bigbrother/

[–] kayohtie@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Signal have published several times when they receive a request for data and their response.

Due to the mechanisms they employ, all they can actually give is if there's an account associated with a phone number and the last time it logged in, if even that last bit. There's some fairly detailed articles diving into how this works so well under the hood from a cryptographic standpoint, but it basically amounts to even addresses of users being able to be secret to minimize shared metadata to a bare minimum.

Also the software is entirely open-source -- app and server both -- and are frequently audited on this. The server never has an opportunity to receive any plain-text data to store.

The weak spot is always just having access to your device.

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