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# Exit Through the Anti-Surveillance Gift Shop
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/exit-through-the-anti-surveillance-gift-shop/
- Published: 2013-08-19T17:36:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:17:54.000Z
- Description: The New Museum Store will be hosting a very of-the-moment Privacy Gift Shop, which will feature “stealth wear” clothing and accessories that will help you dodge — or at least make you hope you are — surveillance methods.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, New Museum, privacy, Surveillance, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![A stealth hijab (all images courtesy New Museum)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/08/hijab-r0-11x14-640.jpg)

An anti-drone scarf helps the owner avoid thermal imaging. (all images courtesy New Museum)

For a limited time, the [New Museum Store](http://www.newmuseumstore.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) will be hosting a very of-the-moment Privacy Gift Shop, which will feature “stealth wear” clothing and accessories that will help you dodge — or at least make you hope you are — surveillance methods.

![The "OFF Pocket" phone case blocks 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and other signals in case you have to cloak your phone data.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/08/off-pocket-phone-case_photo-adam-harvey-640.jpg)

The “OFF Pocket” phone case blocks 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and other signals in case you have to cloak your phone data.

The product line, designed by artist Adam Harvey and fashion designer Johanna Bloomfield, includes the Anti-Drone Scarf (it looks like a hijab and protects against thermal imaging surveillance), the OFF Pocket Phone Case (blocks wireless signals), the Metal Dollar Bill (shields RFID units in your wallet from would-be identity thieves), and the least-subversive of the lot, the IXNY Tee, which is a redesign of the iconic “I Love NY” T-shirt featuring [OCR-resistant font](https://hyperallergic.com/disrupt-nsa-surveillance-with-this-typeface/) that cannot be deciphered by the NSA.

Have an anxiety about something in your life? Be assured that someone will find a way to sell you something to assuage that fear.

If the Privacy Gift Shop ever wants to expand their selection, I hope they consider artist Evan Roth’s “[TSA Communication](http://www.evan-roth.com/photos/tsa%5Fcommunication?ref=hyperallergic.com)” backpack plates in their selection, which certainly are a conversation starter with any TSA airport security official. Oh, and good luck going through airport security with any of these security hacks.

![privcay-gift-shop-privacy-note-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/08/privcay-gift-shop-privacy-note-640.jpg)

The Metal Dollar Bill blocks RFID signals.

![privacy-gift-shop-ixny-t-02-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/08/privacy-gift-shop-ixny-t-02-640.jpg)

“I Love NY” T-shirt with OCR-resistant font.

*The Privacy Gift Shop opens at the* [*New Museum*](http://www.newmuseum.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) *(235 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan) on Wednesday, August 28 and continues until Sunday, September 22.*