Data Privacy in the U.S. Border Zone

Timothy Pratt, the Guardian: The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean. […] Meanwhile, [surveillance expert Christophe] Boutry, who lives in France, said Tunick’s case was of a piece with tendencies in France and Spain, where authorities have been frustrated in attempts to gain access to the phones of journalists, lawyers and political opponents due to GrapheneOS. The details of this case sound, as is so often the case for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, troubling. It is a pretty good ad for the hardened capabilities of GrapheneOS, though. Ben Werdmuller: While a duress password is a deliberate act of destruction, the better path when crossing the border is to not have data to seize to begin with. Anyone who deals with sensitive…