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A US citizen used a duress PIN on his phone at the border – a standard privacy feature. Now he faces a felony charge for ‘obstructing an investigation.’ The government is criminalizing the absence of data, turning digital self-defense into a crime. Every traveler should be terrified.
FelonyBench reframes AI safety as a legal accountability test, but it ignores the elephant in the room: the industry’s training data pipeline is built on massive copyright theft. This benchmark isn’t a moral reset—it’s a distraction that lets companies pretend lawlessness is a model behavior problem instead of a business-model problem.
The U.S. government is criminalizing the act of deleting your own phone data, turning a defensive privacy tool into a felony charge. This case sets a precedent that could make any secure wipe, from GrapheneOS to factory reset, an obstruction of justice. Your right to silence doesn’t extend to your phone anymore—and the state is coming for the software that protects it.