Yo this is getting boosted enough that I'm getting a lot of replies talking about the technical precautions that are taken to make this safe so let me be clear:
Folks like me were talking about how nervous it makes us that tech companies are keeping so much data on stuff like locations and even menstruation cycles. Folks like you called us paranoid.
Then states made abortion illegal & immediately police started subpoenaing that data to arrest women.
You're wrong. Consistently and dangerously.
The precautions that tech companies put in place (because historically they're so very careful right?) are irrelevant when the people trying to bypass those precautions have the threat of state-sanctioned violence backing them up implicitly.
"Unlock your phone so I can make sure that isn't a lock screen wallpaper"
See how easy that was? They can say whatever the fuck they want.
You ever try to "show your ID" by leaving it in your wallet? They make you take it out. Why? Because fuck you.
You know what you can't be doing if you hand your phone to a police officer, whether it remains locked on the ID or not?
You can't be recording the police officer on that phone.
So let me say it real loud for the people at the back who think that the convenience of not carrying a 10mm piece of plastic is worth putting folks who are disproportionately targeted by police in even greater risk:
DO NOT PUT YOUR FUCKING STATE ID ON YOUR FUCKING PHONE.
Here's a case where a man got shot for reaching for his phone, the officer involved thought it was a gun.
"Hold on sir, don't unlock that. There have been reports of people triggering explosives with their phones. Hand it to me and give me your passcode."
This is easy as fuck. I could come up with 10 bullshit excuses to make you unlock your phone in as many minutes.
Don't give cops a reason to take your phone. Your recording is likely your only protection.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/sacramento-police-shooting/index.html
Goddamn even if the cops leave the phone locked to view the ID, they'll just pocket the phone afterwards and "give it back to you when we're done here" - you willingly handed it over to them, they can keep it.
Now they know you can't be recording them. You want to hand over the one thing that they know might keep them honest?
Are people just not paying attention? How the fuck can anyone be in favor of this? You want your ID on your phone so bad, get a sticky ID holder and slap it on the back.
@rodhilton Louisiana, the first state with a digital ID available for every state citizen, addressed this from the start.
At the same time they authorized the digital ID, they passed a law saying that the cops cannot take the phone just for showing them the ID.
@olikami @rodhilton Over here you have your ID, which is a card that might or might not also contain your driver's license.
You ALSO have a strong "Mobile ID", that is just a very good 2FA that is issued to you by your BANK (same app for all banks), not your government, and can be used to quick-ID you at your online banking, your online unemployment office or whatever. But it has nothing visible "ID-ish" on it, no picture, no social security number... you never use it in the physical world.
@olikami @rodhilton You do not have to carry ID, at least in my country (Canada).
(Of course, if you're _driving_ then you need a driver's license, which is also most people's ID, so often this is somewhat academic, but ...)
Nor your driver licence etc.
Good point!
I also recommend adding the ACLU's free #MobileJustice app for the state you are physically in (remember traveling states, too). The app will automatically send the video to the #ACLU.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/mobile-justice
@rodhilton
Also, just to be clear, a picture of a state issued ID is not a replacement of the actual, physical ID. It won't work for situations that require an ID. When I worked for a liquor store, I routinely refused sales to people who only had pictures of their ID, because an ID is required for a sale and a picture ain't one.
If you give a cop your phone with a picture of your ID on it, then he has your phone, but he'll still want your ID.
@rodhilton +9001%
Also:
ALWAYS #FilmCops & #LivestreamCops so they can't hide their #violence or falsefully claim "acting in self-defense" when they are are almost always the aggressors!
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