for the lovely lovely deafies out there who want to get involved in direct action you absolutely 100% cannot ever bring a hearing aid or cochlear implant with bluetooth to any direct action. bluetooth devices all carry a unique signal that can be used to identify you if it's picked up at a direct action. go with a [more] hearing buddy and communicate in sign language. if you don't mutually know a sign language then come up with gestures. do not risk your freedom because you want to have your hearing aid/cochlear implant at the action. it's not worth it.
flock cameras are also now tracking bluetooth device signatures when you pass them. if you drive past a flock camera with your bluetooth-enabled hearing aid or cochlear implant, the flock camera knows you passed through
Wait I just realized this is gonna apply to all cgms and most if not all insulin pumps. They’re all Bluetooth devices, it’s essential to how they work
#oh brilliant we live in an actual fucking nightmare where some disabled people can't go to protests#WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
I want to address this real fast. you can go to the vast majority of protests with a bluetooth device like a hearing aid, cochlear implant, CGM, insulin pump, etc. this post is specifically talking about direct actions where they will bother tracking bluetooth connections. there are even a lot of lower level direct actions where you can bring a bluetooth device (and there are a lot of things that get mislabeled DA that are not DA and are fine to bring bluetooth devices to). this is really a concern with anything where there will be significant property damage or any bodily harm.
basically ask yourself: will they actually bother searching for me?




















