Can You Get Arrested For Wiping Your Phone?|This Week in Privacy #31 (Dec 12, 2025)

Join us 2025-12-12T22:00:00Z for This Week in Privacy #31, to catch up on the latest Privacy Guides updates and to discuss trending news in the privacy space.

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It would be really cool if Privacy Guides could get in touch with EFF to get an answer for the titular question as best as possible with the info available for us to understand the particulars and nuances for what, why, how, etc. of the legal issue and how the law would apply if this happens to someone else- atleast when entering the US.

This would also better help us understand how to and how to not enter a country if you’re an activist who may more likely than not already on a list somewhere.

Amateur discussion on this can only answer the question so much. Would be better if an authority in the area can address it more conclusively accounting for the nuances.

Thank you!

(Hope you see this comment before well before the podcast begins).

@jordan

Please share from an Australia POV about the whole social media ban that’s now in effect there. How are people and companies and platforms handling it and what they think and feel about it now that its the rule. Some insight here would be interesting to learn. Thanks!