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If a phone wipes itself under duress, is that protecting privacy or destroying evidence?
(sh.itjust.works)
A recent case involving GrapheneOS's duress feature has sparked a debate about the balance between privacy and law enforcement. If someone is forced to unlock their phone, should they have the right to protect their personal data with an emergency wipe feature?
At the same time, critics argue that the same feature could be used by criminals to destroy evidence during an investigation, making it harder for law enforcement to do their job.
Where do you stand? Should operating systems include features like this, or do the risks outweigh the privacy benefits? .
The argument could be made that they wiped it, given they entered the password he gave them. I know at least with regular police they can't force you to give them your password without a warrant, which is the whole don't use biometrics/face id argument, but I don't know if that holds true for border patrol or whatever department these ones belong to.
If he told them the code to enter then for all that matters, he wiped it.