Anybody with a router is likely setting up, or already has set up intelligence gathering tools.
As demonstrated in CHAZ, some clever folks set up free WIFI points around the area and snared quite a few ANTIFA/BLM/JBGC. They created a map of who was communicating with who.
OPSEC dictates probably the best strategy is to leave your phone at home, but nothing is perfect.
I would also take the time to encrypt your phone contents and set up an actual password, not face unlock or fingerprint. If you get picked up by LEO, remember your right to not self incriminate, enumerated in the Fifth Amendment.
Food and water would be essential items to bring with you, bring plenty for yourself and some to share if you want. A small first aid kit wouldn't be a horrible idea either.
Stay together, make plans and backup plans and rally points if you get separated from your group.
God bless you and be safe. I'll meet you all there.
EDIT: the comments here have excellent suggestions, I only watched a couple DEFCON videos a few years ago about WIFI activity being intercepted for intelligence gathering purposes. Heed the advice of people more knowledgeable than myself.
You called me a rapist and a criminal. That's false and defamatory. You tried to use your experience to discredit me when it, in fact, falsified nothing that I said. OK whatever, I'll ignore it. It's still false and it reeks of the kind of shit you'd see written in rules for radicals.
Where does that rationale come from? I think it's strange you're appealing to "law abiding citizens" when it is completely obvious, if you've been paying attention at all in the past several months, let alone several years that the law is routinely being disregarded in favor of leftist radicals. I called you "glow" because this is the kind of thing a glowie would say. They would try to discredit any effort to make their jobs more difficult, they would try to convince people that systems that are verifiably insecure are good to use, they would call any attempt at security "larping".
Well why go to D.C. then? You're just "larping" about some fantasy of Trump crossing the Rubicon. It's over, accept the results, say hello to President Biden. He'll never come after you. He'll definitely put Antifa down, he'll ensure the courts and his administration act in an equitable manner. You've got nothing to worry about. You're just a crazy conspiracy theorist!
You want to know what I really think? You don't want to do it because you're lazy and have the classic irrational attachment to your cellular phone common to the people of these days. That's all it comes down to. You're lazy, you'll always be an OPSEC threat to people around you and you probably believe that it's OK that your friend got gobbled up by the wolves so long as you ran faster than him.. because you're an individual, by God, and your support of this President and others who support him ends where it inconveniences you even slightly. No one would want you in their fox hole, I'll tell you that much. We have no room for prima donnas.
Maybe it's you who needs to go back and re-read what i wrote.
If you're going to quote me dont be act like MSM and make up stuff that i didnt say!
I said you're either a crazy conspiracy person or a potential rapist and i stand by that. In terms of association with criminals it was a question about concealing your whereabouts and i stand by that too.
While the walls of text are quite amusing, if you're deadly serious and blinded by rage i can only hope a loved one is aware of your condition and regularly checking in on you. I'm sure there is never a dull moment around you, sincerely :)
Roger on the no room agent foxtrot uniform. Will find alternative mode of transport to DZ. Good luck on operation Glow Back, we're all counting on you. Keep your head on a swivel and trust no one, intel squad has intercepted enemy transmission of ACAB. Cryptography station is still decoding but second letter is believed to be COPS, directive from central command is for your team to not trust COPS, i repeat do not trust COPS and be on the lookout for enemy Soy Boy forces. They may be equipped with trash can lids, leaf blowers and will be unpredictable towards friendly forces. Do not engage unless absolutely necessary. It is imperative that there be no civilian casualties. The fate of the world hinges on mission Rubicon. This is unicorn carebear alpha going silent, position may be compromised. Godspeed! Over and out.
I ain't even mad. Keep glowing.