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U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.htmlposted in Technology
U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.htmlReplying to @inari@piefed.zip
He’s not wrong. They pulled him aside without a warrant and gave him a choice with zero options: Surrender your phone data and give up your privacy, and in the current political climate they always find something that is hurtful to Donald’s tender feelings, or refuse and be detained.
I made a video on Samuel’s story a few weeks ago, if anyone out there hasn’t heard of it.
YouTubeSamuel Tunick, The First "Duress Password" Criminal Case & How to Protect Your Data at the BorderYes if they had any actionable information on him they would have already been advertising it or putting it out there. The fact that they haven’t speaks volumes. This Administration would even purposefully griefly put out false information as long as it hurts people they don’t like.
If they had anything, they’d’ve had a warrant.
There’s a good chance they had information on him, but they got it illegally and needed to ‘accidentally’ discover the same information during a ‘random’ search and now they’re butthurt because it didn’t work.
Such bullshit. There should be no law against deleting your data.
But then how will the apparatus of law work on you? That opinion seems like criminal behavior. You must have something to hide, or believe the apparatus of law would fabricate it, which is criminal behavior.
There isn’t one. They are using to establish a precedent.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
dont forget poor. a poor people are often hungry people and often become angry.
I see that as an example of being sick and scared.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
Identity-based hate is always weakness.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
I don’t care what they admit. I want to see justice done.
The irony of the Trump administration literally destroying all records of business ownership is insane. That is like the greatest destruction of evidence in the history of a country.
They were never in posesión of the unencrypted data, and without collaboration that data would be imposible to obtain. “That’s why they asked por the password”.
I don’t think it holds as “destruction of evidence”.
Is like they try to get a confession out of you. You don’t want to say anything and they say that the words you didn’t say are “destructed evidence”.