The clothes you wear to the protest should also be bought from a thrift store that you visited without your cellphone and paid for the clothing in cash.

Otherwise, yes, your clothing purchases are tracked, and the young lady who torched a cop car during the George Floyd protests was literally found by the FBI searching Etsy purchase records for people who had bought that shirt.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/lore-blumenthal-philly-protests-george-floyd-sentencing-20220728.html

Other options are facial recognition defeating clothing like this:

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/02/07/cap_able-facial-recognition-blocking-clothing/

Or this:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2496686/anti-cctv-reflectacle-glasses-will-let-criminals-evade-the-law-and-activists-dodge-the-surveillance-state/

EDIT:

But neither of those help when we're dealing with stuff like Gait Analysis.

For help with that, we must turn to the Ministry...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8

[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 56 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Cory Doctorow has a solution: put some pebbles in your shoes, that will change the way you walk right away.

[–] Stache_@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading a book about this hacker student kid that would do that to sneak out of the school because they had gait recognition cameras. Can’t remember the name of the book though…

[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Little Brother I think.

[–] Stache_@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Oh haha yep that’s it! Guess I shoulda tried googling Cory Doctorow first. Thank you!

I aughtta give that another read

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 8 months ago

Seems like solid advice, thanks!

[–] interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 8 months ago

I wish the facial rec-blocking clothes weren't too expensive for most protesters

I could retain a subpar attorney with that