Another one to watch in the ongoing argument re data, who owns it and what rights the authorities have to it.

Woman remotely wipes phone in evidence after shooting

You have a phone. The police take it off you. You are sent home. You remotely wipe the phone.

Legal?

@JohnPhilpin I don't care if it is legal (even if I was capable of saying so I still wouldn't care) but I believe it is right to be able to do that. These devices are no longer "just phones".

@simonwoods the USA’s /DoJ / FBI / Law Enforcement bods see it differently ... but I am not one of them - so tend to go with you.

@JohnPhilpin @simonwoods I don't want to see a guilty shooting suspect get away with anything, but I think the suspect had every right to do this. I also think the government had every right to put the seized device into a Faraday bag, but they did not.

@JohnPhilpin the principle should be that anyone should be able to remotely wipe any data storage device they own at any time.