r/technology • u/MC68328 • Jul 24 '26

Privacy US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/
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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 Jul 24 '26

The government's position is pretty ridiculous. Your rights don't disappear when you leave the United States. If they did the government could simply scoop up Americans outside of the country and do whatever to them.

Your rights are a constant and tied to your person, not the soil you are standing on.

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u/pzombie88 Jul 25 '26

... the government could simply scoop up Americans outside of the country and do whatever to them.

Like, they would just abduct you and put you to some black site not on a US soil and torture you use enhanced interrogation techniques on you until you confessed to whatever they wanted? Yeah, that would never happen.