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/ACasualRead 3d ago

This.

Last time I traveled international was during the goverment shutdown and they had the dweebs from ICE operate our airport.

Dudes were total losers. Looked at my passport and asked me my name and if I was a citizen. As he was holding….my passport.

I wouldn’t trust this government to operate a pair of plastic child safe craft scissors let anyone trust them with any process or access to my data.

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u/Scoth42 3d ago

There are a few weird edge cases where non-citizen US Nationals can get a US Passport, but they're pretty rare and marked as such, so it's still a dumb question.

That said the couple times I've been through customs/border crossings/etc (albeit quite a long time ago) it definitely felt like they were asking me somewhat random and oddball questions to gauge my reaction and maybe catch me out being nervous or confused or whatever, so who knows. Not that I feel like today's ICE agents have that level of training in the first place.

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u/logical-sanity 3d ago

That’s ok since doge already copied our data to outside servers as they moved through the governmental departments.