#USA government targets Cop City protester over phone's #grapheneos
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
the Guardian
US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
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GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta | Reclaim The Net
Border search law, Fifth Amendment claims, and Cop City politics collide in an Atlanta federal court case.
The Justice Department is asking a federal court in Atlanta to treat a man’s erasure of his own phone as destruction of property, in the first known US prosecution built on a phone’s duress password.
Samuel Tunick faces one count under Title 18, Section 2232(a), a statute covering the destruction of property to stop the government from taking it. Prosecutors say he handed Customs and Border Protection officers a passcode that deleted the contents of his Google Pixel instead of unlocking it. His lawyers appeared before the court for the first time on Monday, arguing that officers ran a custodial interrogation without Miranda warnings, denied him a lawyer, and searched him unlawfully. They want everything obtained from the encounter suppressed.
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#Dystopia #BigBrother #DataWipe
#GrapheneOS #US
Border search law, Fifth Amendment claims, and Cop City politics collide in an Atlanta federal court case.
The Justice Department is asking a federal court in Atlanta to treat a man’s erasure of his own phone as destruction of property, in the first known US prosecution built on a phone’s duress password.
Samuel Tunick faces one count under Title 18, Section 2232(a), a statute covering the destruction of property to stop the government from taking it. Prosecutors say he handed Customs and Border Protection officers a passcode that deleted the contents of his Google Pixel instead of unlocking it. His lawyers appeared before the court for the first time on Monday, arguing that officers ran a custodial interrogation without Miranda warnings, denied him a lawyer, and searched him unlawfully. They want everything obtained from the encounter suppressed.
@reclaimthenet
#Dystopia #BigBrother #DataWipe
#GrapheneOS #US