• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Don’t ever take a phone to a protest. They WILL use location data against you if your phone is on, Even if it’s off and you happen to lose it, they’ll use the fact that it was found at the scene against you.
    If You’re going to protest, then protest. If I see you standing around taking pictures and videos with your phone I’m going to assume you’re just in it for your Instagram posts.

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    And if you’re not careful when taking videos or pictures at a protest you could expose other protesters and your footage could be used to prosecute people that were there trying to help.
    If you absolutely INSIST on documenting the protests, procure a used GoPro off of eBay or Facebook marketplace that isn’t registered to you and use that.

    • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pub
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      2 months ago

      They WILL use locational data against you if your phone is on, Even if it’s off

      Based on what I know, this can be achieved in two ways:

      1. SIM card: it records your location all the time, so they can get that from your phone company
      2. request it from Google or Apple ( that’s why you should degoogle your phone )

      If you remove the SIM card and don’t connect to any hotspot ( obviously ), then your phone is just a camera, but the issue is that you’ll want to broadcast live, so you’ll need an Internet connection… So