Protect yourself with this bag and accessories

Our Take

This video, from the channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, walks through faraday bags and other signal-blocking accessories meant to keep phones, key fobs, and RFID cards from broadcasting your location to anyone listening. It's part of a broader catalog this creator has built around digital ID, CBDCs, and surveillance tech, and the gear-review angle is a useful entry point for people who aren't yet thinking about these issues every day.

Here's the catch worth flagging: a faraday bag can shield your phone, but it does nothing for your license plate. Flock Safety and similar ALPR networks don't need your phone to pick up a signal — they photograph your plate optically, every time you drive past one of their cameras, and log the time, date, and location whether your devices are shielded or not. Personal signal-blocking is a reasonable layer of privacy hygiene, but it can create a false sense of security if people think it covers them against the fixed camera grid quietly multiplying on utility poles and intersections nationwide.

Real protection against ALPR tracking means knowing where these cameras actually are, pushing back at the city council and police department level, and pairing personal privacy habits with public pressure. Check our camera map to see what's been documented in your area, and visit our take-action page for ways to push back on the systems no faraday bag will ever stop.