President Donald Trump warns that the protesters of Saturday’s US military parade at Washington, DC will be met with “very heavy force”, which threatens chil speech and underlines the need to take care of protesters around digital monitoring, the privacy advocate Ruckus,

In a comment from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump did not distinguish between peaceful and non-PC protesters. “For those who want to protest, they are going to meet with great strength,” Trump said(Press Secretary Karolin Levit Said later“Of course, the President supports peaceful opposition. Is there a stupid question.”) “No Kings” protests are scheduled to be in many cities across the country, but organizers DC excluded especially From his plans to draw attention to the parade, which also coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday.

It is impossible to predict with certainty whether monitoring equipment – such as facial identification to identify people in the crowd, automated license plate readers, who track vehicles entering some areas, cell site simulators who collect information on mobile phones, or Geophen Warrant need to hand over all the users present at a certain time. The White House, through an uncovered email from a general press office account, did not answer a question about whether the administration plans to deploy monitoring technologies, but it pointed to recent comments about Trump and Levit’s protests. DC Metropolitan Police Pointed to comments This week by Matt McCool, in -charge of the special agent of the Washington Field Office of the Secret Service, who said the agency and its fellow will operate the drone during the military parade.

Even if it is not clear whether other monitoring equipment can be used, then experts say that it is prudent for protesters to assume that they will be. Their cause is strengthened to concern with previous government use of such technologies, as Trump has recently deployed military troops in Los Angeles. In response to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on raid, Gov. There is an increase against the desires of Gavin Newsom. “If we are talking about a president who is threatening heavy strength in Washington, then already using heavy force in Los Angeles, I think it will definitely be unconscious to rule the use of any possible monitoring,” called a senior policy lawyer Chad Marlo, a senior policy lawyer of the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU).

Homeland security department Black Lives Matter Accepted to use drones to monitor protests In view of the murder of George Floid by a white police officer in 2020. Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) Used Jioofty Warrant in 2022 To get information about Android users in the area around the arson of an attempt at a police union headquarters in Seattle, who came amidst the protests 29 -year -old black man Jacob Blake Police ShootingThis week in Los Angeles, Customs and Border Security (CBP) confirmed that it was Flying hunter drone In the city for “officer security monitoring”.

Trump’s aggressive efforts to meet the collective exile demands of Trump, and the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, and even more alarm increases, experts say. “I have been helping to lead the protests since I was at Middle School, and I have never seen a moment of much rapid cruelty, with violence and levels of militaryization, people exercising their first modification rights for disagreement against President Trump’s office are being directed. 1984“This is actually taking us to the unwanted region, and I say that a complete belief is that our initial point in this whole saga was a terrible.”

Monitoring data can be used to retaliate against the protesters, and both Marlo and Kahn say that when the law enforces it, we usually do not detect after this fact. Information about protesters’ hideouts and activities can be used against them, for example, to allege that they are engaged in crimes or assist a deportation – and some monitoring equipment, such as facial identification, can cause false identity among people of color.

The courts have so far blocked several attempts by the Trump administration. But Marlo has warned that even though groups such as ACLU win in court, later against the use of monitoring technology, some damage can be done in advance – away from protesting people away from protesting. “There is damage that cannot be reversed,” they say.

Protesters can take steps to limit their privacy risks. These include wearing a face to weaken the efficacy of facial identification technology, leaving your smartphone at home – or logging out of at least accounts – and in case of seizure – writing important phone numbers such as emergency contacts and legal aid on your hand. ACLU maintains one List of rights of protestersAnd Ruckus Is a guide How to secure your phone before a protest.

Marlow and Kahn note that this warning may make some people mitting to exercise their first modern rights – but they are important to distribute anyway. “As public interest lawyers, our role is to give people honest information. And in chilling moments, it can be somewhat reluctant to oppose data,” says Kahn. “But the goal is not to spread fear, and I think we also compete with very misinformation. But this is very important, not only to equip the protesters with an understanding of their rights, what helps protect their privacy with an understanding of strategy, but also with an honest assessment of risks, and frustrated, we do not know that it is lawful.”

This is due to this cool effect that the elimination says, “Protest monitoring is not only compatible with the freedom of speech. When you give the government the power to make a doseer of all who raise their voice in dissatisfaction, it is going to silence millions.”