https://referently.com/tags/privacy/ Recent content in privacy on Referently.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://referently.com/the-doj-is-prosecuting-a-duress-passcode-the-same-week-india-banned-the-app-that-needed-one/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://referently.com/the-doj-is-prosecuting-a-duress-passcode-the-same-week-india-banned-the-app-that-needed-one/ I don’t have much sympathy for prosecutors who treat a phone’s security feature as evidence of criminal intent. That instinct made this story easy to write off as one more overreach the moment I read the headline. It’s not that simple, and pretending it is would waste the more interesting story sitting right next to it. The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly giving CBP a duress passcode — the GrapheneOS feature that wipes a phone’s contents when entered under compulsion — treating the wipe itself as obstruction.