Eliza Orlins

I quite literally gave a TED Talk earlier this year on unlawful surveillance and the erosion of the Fourth Amendment.

And people say, but I didn't commit a crime or I'm a U.S.

citizen.

What does it matter that they have access to my location data?

What does it matter that...

you know, that my DMV records or the tolls that I pay or, you know, that I'm being pinged on my cell site location.

Why does that matter?

Well, it matters because as we've seen with Trump's executive orders, you know, anyone who is considered Antifa,

could be placed on a list, could be criminalized, could be at some point rounded up, prosecuted, jailed.

We don't know at this point.

So everyone should be thinking about the ways in which they can protect themselves and protect their neighbors because we all have people in our lives who we love, who are non-citizens, who are green card holders, who are visa holders, who are DACA recipients.

I mean, guaranteed every single person we...

On this live, you know, every single person watching this knows and loves someone who is less safe than they are.

Well, so it is a massive surveillance network.

I mean, and it doesn't just encompass the things that would be top of mind, you know, which is why I tell folks often, if you're going to a protest, the best thing you can do is leave your phone at home.

And that is the number one safest thing you can do because anything, anytime you open an app that you have given location permissions to, that app is tracking you at that location.

So anything as little as like...

opening the weather app on your phone is tracking your location.

So it's extremely simple.

And I see folks in the comments saying you could use a Faraday bag, but those are not fail safe.