A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct in Authorities’ Hands May Soon Have Its Day in Court
Is it illegal to make your data self-destruct in the hands of the authority figure trying to snoop around on your phone, or are you within your rights to make that happen? If you’re a fan of privacy in our age of creeping digital authoritarianism, there’s one famously effective way to pass through U.S. Customs at an airport without worrying about a device search: travel with a burner phone only.
- ▪Is it illegal to make your data self-destruct in the hands of the authority figure trying to snoop around on your phone, or are you within your rights to make that happen?
- ▪If you’re a fan of privacy in our age of creeping digital authoritarianism, there’s one famously effective way to pass through U.S.
- ▪Customs at an airport without worrying about a device search: travel with a burner phone only.
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Is it illegal to make your data self-destruct in the hands of the authority figure trying to snoop around on your phone, or are you within your rights to make that happen? If you’re a fan of privacy in our age of creeping digital authoritarianism, there’s one famously effective way to pass through U.S. Customs at an airport without worrying about a device search: travel with a burner phone only. As border officials become increasingly preoccupied with what’s on our devices, only carrying devices with nothing interesting on them is kind of a no-brainer.
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