There is a growing trend, where the authorities are allowed to look at your phone, and force you to unlock it. It began at some international borders, but now is creeping into everyday life as well.
If you are doing anything technically illegal or in a grey area, then I recommend carrying two phones. At the very least, have one that you hand over and a second that you don’t. The one you hand over can be a cheap model, on the cheapest phone service, and with incredibly boring social media accounts and photos. Some people don’t use their phones much, it is a thing.
At the other end of the scale, have your good, regular phone for all your normal, uninteresting life, and be extra careful that nothing borderline is on it. Then your second phone, always on you, is for:
- documenting things like police acting badly
- has no SIM card and GPS off = no tracking
- use mega.io for images, auto uploaded to the cloud
- internet access via your main phone
- and whichever measures you deem worthwhile, including a privacy-based OS
So, when you film a cop doing bad things, and you are approached, pocket your phone, and pull out the other one, from the same pocket. They need to look similar enough, but you can feel the difference. Tell them you deleted it. Meanwhile your other phone is auto-uploading the footage to the cloud.
This will work for now, until it becomes prevalent enough for the authorities to start searching for extra phones. Then, have three??
