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.
And this is why encrypted backups should become the norm. Sure, they could always try to crack the encrypted file after it gets turned over, but (assuming you have a good password set for your account) we’re talking about a scale somewhere between “a few billion years” and “the heat death of the universe” with conventional (non quantum) computers.
And this is why encrypted backups should become the norm. Sure, they could always try to crack the encrypted file after it gets turned over, but (assuming you have a good password set for your account) we’re talking about a scale somewhere between “a few billion years” and “the heat death of the universe” with conventional (non quantum) computers.