sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours agoU.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Riskwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1239cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1239external-linkU.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Riskwww.nytimes.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours agomessage-square47fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareFlames5123@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoMy understanding is that if you knew a search was going to happen, it’s illegal. But good luck proving that you knew it would happen.
minus-squareschipelblorp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-23 hours agoI think you might be thinking of spoilation–https://civilprocedure.uslegal.com/discovery/spoliation-of-evidence/ --which is destroying evidence you think might be subpoened. I don’t think it would apply in this scenario.
My understanding is that if you knew a search was going to happen, it’s illegal. But good luck proving that you knew it would happen.
I think you might be thinking of spoilation–https://civilprocedure.uslegal.com/discovery/spoliation-of-evidence/ --which is destroying evidence you think might be subpoened. I don’t think it would apply in this scenario.