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U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

The video I provided covers this. There are plenty of statutes and precedents. There's a tiny little bit of unsettled case law to be decided here that will, at best, lower his sentence a bit.

I strongly suspect an imminent plea bargain, unless they want to use him as an example.