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.

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.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    10 hours ago

    the claim they are making is that the user inputted a duress pin at the port, i was under the assumption that they actually need to have evidence that something was there in order to claim destruction of evidence, I’ll be curious to see where that case goes. It sounds like it was a routine search with no objective.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    11 hours ago

    Yeah well I charge the CBP with being complete and total fuckwits because apparently we can just charge anybody with any old bullshit now. I’ve got a feeling my charges have a better shot at sticking.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      10 hours 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.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      14 hours 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”.