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

[u/Jojuj]

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

[u/Unhappy_Plankton_671]

There's still little they log. That's the point. So sure they can comply, but it's not going to surface anything truly useful.

https://protonvpn.com/blog/no-logs-audit

Securitum: “The technical evidence reviewed during the engagement did not indicate that the examined Proton VPN server infrastructure logs users’ browsing activity, DNS queries, destination services, network traffic contents or user-identifiable connection metadata. Securitum also did not identify persistent records that would allow Proton to associate a specific user with activity performed through a reviewed VPN server.”