| US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search(techspot.com) | |
| 875 points by eecc 13 hours ago | 670 comments | |
tl;dr: Federal prosecutors in Atlanta are charging Sam Tunick with destroying property to prevent seizure after his GrapheneOS-equipped Pixel phone wiped itself during a border search at Hartsfield-Jackson airport. Experts say it may be the first time US law has been applied against use of a privacy-focused operating system, raising concerns that the case effectively criminalizes GrapheneOS by default. Tunick's defense argues agents denied him counsel and used a child sexual abuse material pretext to investigate his ties to the "Cop City" protest movement. | |
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