The Phone as a Battlefield: Cop City and the Fading Line Between Protest and Crime The case of Sam Tunick, an Atlanta resident accused by the US Department of Justice of using his phone's GrapheneOS operating system to destroy evidence in connection with the Cop City protests, raises concerns about government overreach.
The prosecution under a little known federal statute has sparked alarm among civil liberties advocates and experts who see it as an attempt to control the most intimate digital lives.
Tunick was intercepted at Hartsfield Jackson airport on January 24 last year upon returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, just days after the US Department of Justice announced its second recent effort to indict Cop City protesters.