Be Heard, Be Seen, and Be Safe: Protest Tips with Chad Marlow | #aclu #shorts #digitalprivacy | ACLU
The short version: The ACLU's quick-hit protest safety tips are a reminder that surveillance risk starts before you even reach the march — often at the license plate reader on your route.
Our Take
Chad Marlow's rapid-fire advice for the ACLU — credit to their team for keeping digital privacy front and center as 'No Kings' protests ramp up — focuses on what happens at the protest itself: phones, faces, footage. That's valuable, but it's only half the surveillance picture. Plenty of attendees get logged before they ever raise a sign, because the drive to the protest site took them past one or more Flock Safety ALPR cameras that silently captured their plate, timestamp, and location.
That data doesn't need a warrant, doesn't ask permission, and in many jurisdictions sits in a database for weeks or longer, accessible to local police and sometimes shared well beyond city lines. If you're organizing against government overreach, it's worth knowing the government — or a private vendor working with it — may already have a travel log of your trip to make that point. Tips on muting your phone matter; so does knowing what's bolted to the pole on your corner.
Before your next action, check our camera map to see what's tracking your route, and visit our take-action page if you want to push back on ALPR deployment in your community.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ACLU, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.