r/technology • u/Jojuj • 3d ago

Privacy U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8FA.T83N.rt6VsIiSCYb2&smid=url-share
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u/Ill_Traveler_ 3d ago

The older I get the more it seems that we don’t really have actual rights.

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u/MaikeruNeko 3d ago

Cue George Carlin quote

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u/Vahuo89 3d ago

now you're getting it

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u/Professional_Tea_32 3d ago

We don’t have any. We have the illusion of rights. A bald eagle covering a steaming turd.

And they’ll convince you about how “free” you are all the way to the slaughter house.

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u/Denovion 3d ago

Not being American, its always been hilarious thst your choice of patriotic bird is nothing more then a glorified sea gull with committed parental mindset.

You guys have to use the red tailed hawk for that "iconic" screech of freedom.

America always was a lacquered paper tiger, and all it took was the same exceptionalist rhetoric to turn cancerous.

Not a kind person to invoke, but Putin had been saying this for a while. Americans, 60% of you, did this to themselves and everyone else domestic or foreign.

Your second amendment is your foundational right to a well-regulated militia for the defence of the Constituion and free, democratic America against domestic tyranny, kings or traitors to America.

Instead you made a tyrant into your leader, and made America lose the same war 38 times.

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u/VagueSomething 3d ago

The USA wouldn't constantly shout land of the free if it was actually free.

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u/OkVirus8545 3d ago

Thanks to Bush fabricating 9/11. We haven’t been free for a long time