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Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules::Phone-unlocking case law is “total mess,” may be ripe for Supreme Court review.
An app can clear your phone with a specific password, can’t remember the name…
Wasted on F-Droid.
Can you suggest any app, which gives more flexibility in what to erase?
That app supports this, which can be granular
https://guardianproject.info/code/panickit/
Pretty sure the 5th Amendment doesn’t protect against obstruction of justice if you knowingly wipe your phone while under custody
How could they know?
Just yell at them “WTF DID YOU DO? MY LAST GRANDFATHER PICTURES ARE GONE!”
And tadaaaaa
Doing it before you’re under custody isn’t a crime, and they also can’t prevent you from deleting non-evidence but otherwise private data which you don’t want to see misused (proving that is a whole other issue, though)