@Goatboy I'm not sure what you are saying "Nooooo" to.  Yes, IBM helped the Nazis colate data via punchcards during WWII.  Everyone collects as much as they can get away with.  I wouldn't say data collection is a ruse at all.  If for no other purpose, the data they collect is used to maintain their infrastructure in terms of kid snatching, organ/body parts, big pharma, blackmail, etc. I actually do have Faraday cages and shields for key backup items as EMP threat.  I also throw my phone in one by my bed and/or set it across the room. I'm completely open to your suggestion of cell phone as a weapon.  But I have a couple problems with the theory - primarily, power (or lack of).  There isn't enough juice, even a straight dump to ground through your body.  It may tingle.  It may afib someone.  I'm not saying there isn't an off chance it could get someone.  The other issue is what frequency?  I understand the basics of waves, but I'm not reading the whole article.  It would have to transfer energy via direct touch (making a call) or wave propagation (radio broadcast). IT would make for a good movie or TV series.  Pick up the phone and bam - people drop like sacks of potatoes. I think the masses would figure it out pretty quick.