The OFF Pocket is a pouch for your phone that blocks cellular, wireless and GPS signals. Image: Adam Harvey You can buy the Anti-Drone Scarf for $450. Image: Adam Harvey This allows your to totally disconnect whenever you want to. Image: Adam Harvey T-shirt that replaces the iconic “I Love NY” with an optical character recognition-resistant font that makes it more difficult to decipher. Image: Adam Harvey A copper wallet insert shields your credit cards from RFID skimming. Image: Adam Harvey The Privacy Gift Shop is open at the New Museum until September 23. Image: Adam Harvey

For Adam Harvey, the news about the NSA privacy breaches were disconcertingly well-timed. The New York City-based artist was just finishing up a couple of big projects that were directly tied to the increasing lack of privacy in our lives. Harvey, who is best known for his Stealth Wear line, had been planning to open a pop-up store to sell his counter-surveillance goods at the New Museum in NYC prior to the revelations about the NSA scandal.

“I had been talking to a curator at the New Museum before the NSA controversy broke,” he says. So the fact that the Privacy Gift Shop was opening just a couple months after was actually sort of serendipitous. “There’s a lot of momentum and discontent building from everyone in America, and now around the world, about the spy program,” he says. “And I think at least on the bright side of it, it’s put privacy and security-related issues on the front page almost every day since that news broke.”

>Parkas use metallized fabric to shield wearers from a drone's thermal imaging technology.

The store, which is open until September 23, is something of a retrospective of Harvey’s counter-surveillance projects from the past year or so. It offers the bulk of the anti-surveillance gear he and his design partner Johanna Bloomfield have created, including the Anti-Drone garments, a series of hoodies, parkas and scarfs that use metallized fabric to shield wearers from the thermal imaging technology drones employ; a copper wallet insert that shields your credit cards from RFID skimming; and a cleverly designed t-shirt that replaces the iconic “I Love NY” with an optical character recognition-resistant font that makes it difficult for the NSA to decipher.

The most recent—and perhaps the most readily applicable to daily life—of the store’s offerings is the Off Pocket, a phone pouch that uses special metal fabric to shields your phone from cellular, wireless and GPS signals. Harvey and Bloomfield just finished a Kickstarter campaign for the product that blew past its original $35,000 goal to rake in $60,000. Harvey, whose interest in privacy dates back to 2001 when the Patriot Act was introduced, says he’s not really surprised the reaction has been so strong. “I think the NSA revelations are going have a backlash,” he says. “A lot of people are going to be making art projects or business startups as ways to observe the anxiety that comes with living in this surveillance or spy culture.”

The store is heading to Vienna after its New Museum stint, but after that he’s planning to offer the items online, in hopes that they’ll be more readily accessible to anyone who might be interested in protecting themselves. “We’ll get to see how much people really care about privacy once it’s in the marketplace,” he says. “If nobody spends a dollar on it, then it’s pretty clear that nobody cares, but I don’t see that happening—I see just the opposite happening.”