Faraday sleeve to stop phone/ipad from being screened
The short version: A Faraday sleeve blocks phone scanning, but it's a band-aid for a surveillance problem that extends far beyond your pocket, including license plate readers on every street.
Our Take
The channel Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency walks through using a Faraday sleeve to keep a phone or iPad from being scanned or tracked. It's a practical, low-tech tool for anyone worried about device-level surveillance, and credit to the creator for putting out a simple how-to in a space often buried in jargon.
But here's the catch: a Faraday sleeve protects the device in your hand, not the car you drive past a Flock Safety camera in. ALPR networks don't need your phone's signal to build a timeline of where you've been, who you visited, and how often. They just need your plate and a camera on a pole. You can shield your phone all day and still get logged dozens of times a week without ever knowing it.
That's the blind spot in a lot of personal-privacy advice right now. Phone security matters, but it's one piece of a much bigger surveillance dragnet that includes license plate cameras most people have never noticed. Check our camera map to see what's been deployed near you, and head to take-action if you want to push back on the infrastructure that's quietly tracking you no matter how locked down your phone is.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.