Activist charged with felony after giving border agent 'duress code' that wiped his phone
An activist has been charged with a felony after allegedly providing a border agent with a 'duress code' that erased data on the agent's phone during an airport interrogation. The government contends that the destruction of this data constitutes an illegal act, raising questions about the intersection of digital privacy rights and law enforcement authority at borders.
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