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Tech News Today: Border Phone Searches and Digital Privacy

US Citizen Charged for Wiping Phone at Border

Federal prosecutors are pressing charges against US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly using a duress password to wipe his phone when border agents attempted to search it at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport, in what his defense team calls a pretext to investigate his political affiliations.

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