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SECURITYJul 26 · 18:45 UTCTHE VERGETerrence O’Brien

The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

The US is prosecuting Sam Tunick for allegedly providing a duress password that wiped his phone during a 2025 airport border search. Tunick's lawyers claim the government's focus on child exploitation images was a pretext to investigate his ties to the Stop Cop City movement.

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Sam TunickpersonU.S. governmentorganizationAtlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airportplaceStop Cop City movementtopicduress passwordtopic
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