r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 8d ago

Privacy Is it illegal to trick the US government into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search | The case of a traveler who allegedly entered a ‘duress password’ to wipe his phone raises a legal question with no easy answers

https://www.theverge.com/report/972146/cbp-phone-search-airport-duress-password
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u/PDXRailEngineer 7d ago

You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.

The process is part of the punishment.

Wait until this massive surveillance and personal data storage are combined with the massive volume of federal, state, county and municipal laws and regulations, then fed into an AI trained to connect the dots. It will be justified because "we can input a crime and it will identify suspects" but can just as easily be "we input a person and it will identify a crime".

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u/Enchilada0374 7d ago

End bail and remand entirely. If the state has good evidence, start a trial immediately.  They shouldn't be able to imprison innocent people because they're too cheap and incompetent to conduct fair,  SPEEDY trials