A Private Investigator Discusses Portable Police Cellphone Data Download Devices Used in the Field.
Disclaimer: Nothing in this post constitutes legal advice and cannot be relied upon as such. Consult a lawyer if you have questions or concerns.
Summary: At any Scientology protest, you risk the possibility of being swatted or false reported by OSA. If this happens, the police can legally download the contents of your phone using Universal Field Extraction Devices (UFED).
The police can also get a warrant to obtain the contents of your cloud account. Remember: Everything on your phone backs up into a cloud, and, Apple and Google have redundancy in their clouds. Even erased texts can be forensically retrieved.
Never put anything in a text, email, photo, or voice message that you would not want presented in a court of law or in the often toxic swamp of social media.
Marketing literature for UFED equipment clearly proves that your cellphone is no match for these police-grade forensic collection units:
The Bottom Line:
1. Use a dedicated “protest only” cell phone to livestream. Do not place any personal information, texts, photos, numbers, or anything else on this phone.
2. Use a separate email address and cloud account for a dedicated protest phone. Do not make the mistake
2. If you are not livestreaming, then use a burner phone at protests. These are called disposable phones or dumb phones. You can make calls on them and some allow you to take photos and videos. But these stripped down phones can do little else. An example from Amazon:
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