ICE has told its agents to get the phones.

[Cattledog]

Confiscate, knock out of hands, destroy. So be sure to upload to the cloud as you record.

[Ocelot II]

1. Better yet, wear a small body camera (they're cheap), leave your phone at home

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.

[ms liberty]

4. This.

[CrispyQ]

29. I got a clip-on camera/recorder & keep it on my visor.

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/

[Ocelot II]

34. Good stuff - bookmarked!

[JCMach1]

31. And maybe a bulletproof vest at this point

[pattyloutwo]

40. Jeez, fighting for democracy is hard (no sarcasm) 😥

[dalton99a]

2. And attach phone case to lanyard

On Amazon: "phone case lanyard"

[ms liberty]

5. I keep getting ads from a shop called Save the Girls that has some very useful and attractive ones

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

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. ICE is scared of a public record of their crimes

[yardwork]

16. For good reason.

[Historic NY]

37. So were the NAZI's

they kept filling the ovens up to the last moment.

[FakeNoose]

6. When protesting ICE goons, be sure to take a burner phone

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

[Grammy23]

13. And burner phones are

Quite cheap. And readily available.

[DBoon]

7. Bicyclists commonly wear helmet cameras

.webp

[Attilatheblond]

9. Cool idea. LOTS of cyclists here wear them

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.

[StarryNite]

21. I'd be afraid they would break my neck trying

to rip it off.

[ancianita]

8. ICE is illegally conspiring to deny civil rights and should be sued. That's a fourth amendment violation.

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.

[Initech]

11. And it's no longer about immigrants, either.

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.

[ancianita]

15. That will have to be dealt with when the Senate votes on the budget. Policy changes

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.

[YodaMom2]

30. Perhaps I'm not understanding what you're trying to say.

Keith Ellison is neither MAGA nor in the Senate.

[TomSlick]

33. Why are you attacking Keith Ellison?

Do you know who you're talking about?

[yardwork]

18. It was never about immigrants.

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

[Initech]

26. And the only thing the MAGA dolts care about is their next appearance on Fox News.

[ancianita]

22. Does not matter. If there's evidence of illegal search/seizure, they've violated A4 of the US Constitution.

[James48]

19. They don't care about laws, or courts, or justice.

They are murderers.

[ancianita]

23. Does not matter. If there's evidence of illegal search/seizure, they've violated A4 of the US Constitution.

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

[Volaris]

10. They just keep racking up the 4th Amendment Violations, dont they?

Are they TRYING to get themselves pit in prison lol?

[2naSalit]

12. And use a burner phone!!!

They can have that with minimum info on it.

[MadScout]

36. That's their plan...

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

[surfered]

14. Well, they'll have to pry the cell phone from my "cold, dead hands."

[MLWR]

17. ICE has told its agents to get the phones.

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

[Ilsa]

39. Not that the illegality will stop them from breaking the law. nt

[ancianita]

20. LINK?! Why in heck are there no links in so many OP's these days.

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.

[ashredux]

24. If a court tells Trump not to do something, he just gives the court the finger and does what he wants

It’s kinda like, OK try and stop me…

[LiberalArkie]

27. They will have both Stingrays (to capture the data) and jammers to prevent streaming to internet.

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.

[Amaryllis]

28. Do you have a link? I want to post this but will need a link to do it.

[sakabatou]

32. So they confirmed ICE to be full of criminals. No one should be surprised.

[Martin68]

35. Everything they do is illegal.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

38. In trump's world, cameras, the truth and facts are dangerous weapons