If you think you need a phone, it should be a burner.

Having a small faraday bag around is useful too, that's what I do.

I mean, a proper Faraday cage will block anything unless the US government has figured out how to break the laws of physics...

Not good enough. Phones can figure out its location using gyroscopes and accelerometer, then if at any point in the future, you remove it from the faraday cage, your entire movement logs are transmitted.

This first thing you should do when going protesting, is to leave your phone at home.

Drop it on the tail prop so they start spinning and get hella dizza and throw up.

I bring my phone. I likely won't be breaking any laws, and I can afford a lawyer. So yeah arrest me and waste the system's time. Just another data point they have to sort.

And if it gets to the point where none of that matters we were cooked anyway

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

I'm an American, but my only experience with LA was traveling through for 2 days about 10 years ago. AKA no experience with LA.

This action appears to be originated from LAPD and therefore the local LA government. I have always considered LA to be deeply blue, and would therefore think that their local LA government would be Democrat, not Republican.

So should this not be the local blue voting populace having a word with their blue elected politicians?

Unless your device is already compromised, that information isnt being logged when the device is powered off so it's kind of moot.

It's a very personal issue for me.

I lost everything and had to start over with little more then the clothes on my back, and then to hear people say I should've just moved?

A well kept helicopter is a reliable machine as any other, but it's true that it's probably a civil heli with extra cop stuff, ergo easy to down with some fuckery.

Cool...

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

"powered off"

Unless I'm holding the battery in one hand and the phone in the other I don't trust it being turned off either.

Cool...

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

This first thing you should do when going protesting, is to leave your phone at home.

That burner cant ever have connected to a cell tower when its near your house, otherwise its not longer a "burner"

Edit: Also: Beware of the possibility of there being malware that logs gyroscope and accelerometer data. Those info can be used to figure out your location, then transmitted whenever it has a chance.

Lawyers operate in courts. We don’t have due process anymore.

Not good enough. Phones can figure out its location using gyroscopes and accelerometer, then if at any point in the future, you remove it from the faraday cage, your entire movement logs are transmitted.

The reason it being turned off matters is because LE has a significantly more difficult time extracting data from that state. And again, a proper faraday bag prevents signal leak.

You guys are welcome to do what you want, I'm just explaining the best way to stay safe if you don't want to leave your phone at home. There are plenty of legitimate reasons someone may want one as a lifeline just in case.

Did you hear that from the president and the press? Or just random assholes on the internet?