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Why Does Border Patrol Need the Ability To Delete Messages?
A lawsuit attempts to find out how federal agents are implementing Wickr, a communications service that has an auto-erase function.

4 April 2022



The same government that wants to demand access to all our secure phone and online communications nevertheless wants to destroy its own to keep it out of the public's hands? Say it isn't so! Yes, probably few are surprised, but it's worth taking note whenever our own grabby government uses privacy technology to keep secrets. On Sunday, NBC News reported about Customs and Border Patrol's (CBP) use of an Amazon-owned app called Wickr, a conferencing, file-sharing, and messaging service that can be customized to automatically delete messages. The purchase and use of the app by CBP has prompted concerns by ...



 
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