So I guess the solution to this is to backup your phone to someplace safe, wipe it, and then restore it when you get to your destination… WTF!
I don’t see a link here… Is there an article or anything?
If I travel to the US next time to visit family, I’m thinking of getting a burner phone and also leave my iPad at home. It will be a boring flight but I don’t feel safe otherwise. Shit country.
He’ll get off this charge easy. It’s his phone he can do whatever the fuck he wants to do with it. Wiping your phone is not an illegal act.
If he had received a valid court order to not delete anything on his phone, then doing so could put him in legal trouble. So what you said is not true in general. But most of the time, for almost everyone, almost all of the time, then, yes, it’s okay to wipe your phone… And because the article did not mention a court order, we can be sure that there wasn’t one.
What a shithole country.
This is stupid. He shouldn’t clbe charged unless they can prove that he destroyed evidence. If it was evidence, what was it?
Did they mistakenly erase the phone trying to unlock it, or did it erase itself when he didn’t log in for a certain period of time? Like obviously if he was in custody, he either knew he was going to be detained and erased it beforehand (unlikely) or they messed up and ran afoul of good tech privacy practices and are big mad about it.
