and buy a burner. Your phone has too much important and valuable information to risk having it seized. If you have to bring it, disable the biometrics (face/fingerprint ID) and set it to airplane mode.

Every other week or so I record an outing just so I remember how to use it.

on edit: If you're gonna get a burner phone, there's a section in this article that's worth the read. If you want your burner phone so it's not trackable to you, there are ways to buy & activate it so it's harder to trace it to you.

The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

I've been eyeing something like that for a while.

they kept filling the ovens up to the last moment.

Chances are that you'll never see it again, but at least they won't get your real phone.

Quite cheap. And readily available.

And I just took a peek. They have them for motorcycle helmets too. Golly, my daughter used to ride a small motor cycle and has a helmet or two around the house. Thinking.... thinking... bookmarking helmet cams for researching.

to rip it off.

Confiscating a protestor's phone is generally considered a 4th Amendment violation. It constitutes an "unreasonable search and seizure," as cell phones contain immense personal data and are not typically subject to warrantless searches, even upon arrest. Police must usually have a warrant or specific, probable cause, rather than just using it to deter recording or fishing for information.

Key points regarding the seizure of protestor phones:
Privacy Rights: The Supreme Court has ruled that cell phones are distinct from other personal items, meaning they cannot be casually searched without a warrant, even incident to an arrest.

It's about bullying and intimidating people who didn't vote for the fucking asshole. He is illegally amassing and usurping an amount of power that was previously only seen in James Bond movies.

require a whole new look at DHS budgets when ICE behavior causes so much collateral damage to American citizens in the name of "immigration enforcement." What ICE is doing points to, as massive digital evidence will show, a DHS endorsed invasion of MN and Minneapolis by its enforcement arm. Noem should be impeached and tried in the Senate, and ICE heads of the MN attacks arrested and arraigned at state level under the aegis of the Attorney General, Keith Ellison.

Keith Ellison is neither MAGA nor in the Senate.

Do you know who you're talking about?

That was just the scare tactic used to take our rights away.

They are murderers.

We KNOW they don't care. No criminals care.

Are they TRYING to get themselves pit in prison lol?

They can have that with minimum info on it.

So it’s important to have everything uploading to the cloud or to go live when filming.

They have NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER to confiscate anyone's phones. That "order" is ILLEGAL.

OP's shouldn't even be posted on the Main Page if they don't have at least one link.

Back up your claim. This OP habit is ridiculous, unhelpful, and not credible.

It’s kinda like, OK try and stop me…

When they know that they are going to have an event. So carrying all your life with you to catch some video is useless and very dangerous.