Privacy gear catalog
A privacy product belongs in a trusted catalog only when the seller can name the threat, show how the product changes that threat, and describe the remaining risk.
This catalog supports Privacy gear webshop. It separates useful passive tools from attractive but weak claims.
Launch first
Privacy screens
Removable laptop filters and model-specific phone protectors reduce viewing angles and casual shoulder surfing. They do not prevent a camera placed directly behind the user, screen capture, malware, or disclosure to someone standing in the permitted viewing cone.
The commercial problem is compatibility. List exact display width, height, aspect ratio, mounting method, touch compatibility, and whether brightness or color is noticeably reduced. Use demand pages before stocking the long tail.
Camera shutters and covers
A physical shutter prevents an unused camera from seeing the room. Prefer built-in shutters, external-webcam caps, removable stickers, or extremely thin covers with verified device compatibility.
Apple warns that closing a MacBook with a camera cover installed may damage the display and that a cover can interfere with the ambient-light sensor. Every listing needs a device-specific warning. Do not pair a camera cover with a claim that it also disables the microphone.
RFID and passport sleeves
Passive shielding sleeves can prevent a card or passport from being read while it remains inside the sleeve. Sell sleeves whose attenuation can be checked, not generic active blocker cards with theatrical claims.
The description should not imply that contactless-card fraud is the customer’s dominant financial risk. The ordinary value is deliberate radio isolation, reduced accidental reads, and a simple place for travel documents.
Cash-capable wallets and recovery organizers
A wallet with real note and coin capacity supports payment choice. A small organizer can hold printed recovery instructions, spare security keys, or emergency contacts.
These products create privacy through user practice, not through an anonymity guarantee. Fire resistance, RFID shielding, or tamper evidence must each be tested and claimed separately.
Faraday key pouches and home boxes
A passive enclosure can reduce relay risk while a compatible key remains correctly sealed inside it. The customer should receive a simple repeatable test: place the key inside, close the product as instructed, and confirm that the vehicle cannot unlock or start.
Closures and conductive fabric wear. Publish a retest interval and a replacement rule after visible damage or failed tests.
Tamper-evident bags and seals
Numbered seals and evidence bags do not prevent access. They make access more likely to leave a visible trace. They are useful for spare keys, recovery documents, travel equipment, and small-team custody procedures.
The listing must distinguish tamper evidence from tamper resistance and secure storage.
Paper privacy tools
Useful low-regulation additions include:
- a recovery planner that never asks the shop to receive secrets
- opaque security envelopes
- lockable document pouches
- identity-protection rollers for discarded address labels
- cross-cut shredders sourced from an established EU supplier
- reusable address-label covers for returned packaging
The shop should not encourage customers to record live passwords in a branded cloud service.
Add after supplier validation
Personal alarms and licence-free marker sprays
Pull-pin alarms, whistles, and simple travel alarms can extend the catalog from information privacy into personal safety. Test activation force, sound level at a stated distance, battery replacement, false activation, and child safety.
One marker or menthol defence spray may be piloted only after the formulation, weapons-law, chemical-label, dangerous-goods shipping, insurance, and supplier gates in Defence marker sprays pass. Do not sell pepper spray, tear gas, or an item whose exact Swedish formulation is uncertain.
USB data blockers and charge-only cables
These products physically omit or interrupt ordinary USB data paths. They can reduce exposure when power must come from an untrusted port. They do not protect against malicious voltage, a compromised device, wireless attacks, or every behavior negotiated through USB-C Power Delivery.
Test connector fit, charging speed, USB-C behavior, and the absence of ordinary data enumeration across a documented device matrix. Avoid dramatic claims that public charging compromise is common.
FIDO security keys
FIDO security keys use origin-bound public-key authentication and can provide phishing-resistant login. They are one of the highest-value products in the catalog.
Sell only through an authorized supply chain. Offer compatible pairs and a registration guide, but never pre-enroll a key, request the customer’s account password, or retain a recovery key. The guide must explain service compatibility, PIN setup, spare-key registration, and recovery before the customer removes weaker methods.
Phone and laptop Faraday bags
Larger bags have legitimate transport and isolation uses, but they are easier to oversell than key pouches. A bag blocks normal communication only while the device remains fully enclosed and the shielding performs as claimed.
It does not erase stored data, prevent compromise after removal, or make a person’s prior and later movements unlinkable. Stock these only with supplier evidence and an incoming-batch and wear-testing process.
Port locks and cable locks
Physical port blockers, device locks, and lockable charging cases can reduce casual access. They are useful in offices, events, and shared accommodation. Be precise about whether a product deters, delays, or records access.
Later or specialist-only
Hardware-encrypted storage
Encrypted USB drives can protect data at rest, but firmware, recovery, certification scope, and operating-system support create a serious support burden. Carry them only from a traceable manufacturer after testing unlock, update, backup, and failure procedures.
Travel routers and privacy appliances
Routers with auditable software can be useful, but radio-equipment compliance, firmware updates, vulnerability response, and network support make them a later category. The product is a supported lifecycle, not a box with a privacy label.
Preconfigured phones
Supported Pixel and GrapheneOS devices can become a service-led offer. They create warranty, update, account, and recovery responsibilities that do not belong in the first commodity catalog. GrapheneOS Pixel procurement compares the current Swedish acquisition cost, refurbished supply, support runway, and VAT treatment. See Unlinked subscription architecture and Privacy business proposals#Safe device and account setup.
Discreet cameras and audio recorders
Miniature, body-worn, room, and vehicle recorders can document threats, coercion, theft, workplace misconduct, care failures, or conditions that are unsafe to expose openly. The same features can also support unlawful monitoring. The product class does not decide which use is present.
Treat these as a specialist category because legality and operating risk depend on participation, place, audio capture, purpose, retention, and disclosure. Covert recording and evidence in Sweden maps those distinctions and the product gates. A launch decision needs tested product behavior, use-scenario guidance, local-storage options, and a referral path for fact-specific legal or evidence questions.
Hidden-camera and radio detectors
These tools can have legitimate travel and safety uses, but cheap products produce false confidence and professional RF interpretation is difficult. They also sit close to a dual-use surveillance market. Offer them only with demonstrated test performance and careful customer guidance.
Exclusions and decision gates
| Treatment | Product or claim | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Legal exclusion | Radio, GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular jammers | PTS states that possessing a jammer is prohibited in Sweden outside narrow authorized exceptions. |
| Weapons-law gate | Pepper spray, tear gas, and any defence spray with uncertain formulation | Classification, licensing, chemical labeling, transport, insurance, and supplier facts must be resolved for the named product. |
| Identity and telecom review | Pre-registered SIMs, accounts, or identity packages supplied under someone else’s details | This is different from selling an ordinary phone or a prepaid SIM registered to its actual user; the former creates identity, contract, fraud, and telecom exposure outside the present operating model. |
| Specialist category | Discreet cameras, audio recorders, and related monitoring equipment | The device is dual-use; apply the capability, marketing, customer-information, and support gates in Covert recording and evidence in Sweden. |
| Claim-evidence exclusion | Anti-5G, anti-radiation, or health claims without credible evidence; microphone plugs presented as physically disabling every microphone | The product claim exceeds the demonstrated mechanism. |
| Supply-chain gate | Generic security keys or encrypted drives without an auditable manufacturer and supply chain | Product authenticity, firmware, recovery, and vulnerability response cannot be supported. |
| Performance gate | Faraday products whose frequency coverage cannot be reproduced after ordinary wear | The central product claim cannot be verified across the expected lifecycle. |
Product record
Every stock-keeping unit should have an internal record containing:
- manufacturer, importer, EU responsible person, and supplier
- batch or lot identifier
- applicable conformity documents and warnings
- exact threat and intended user
- claim evidence and test method
- limitations and compatibility matrix
- incoming inspection result
- return, failure, and complaint history
- recall contact path
- retest or retirement interval
This record supports Swedish ecommerce compliance guidance and makes product truth a repeatable operating capability.