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Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It (www.404media.co)
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The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.

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[–] dontsayaword@piefed.social 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What law is this breaking?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence or something like that I'd imagine. Realistically "He got in the way of us charging him with something before we could prove anything".

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

they are claiming the man is in violation of title 18 section 2232 for inputting what seems to be a duress pin that initiated a wipe on the device when they tried to seize it.

said section does not talk about reasoning for searches though, it uses the terms "lawful authority" which in my eyes indicates that the search as a whole was lawful in the first place. It happend at a port authority though and those generally have weaker protections for citizen rights.