Episode

Can You Get Arrested For Wiping Your Phone?

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This Week in Privacy
Published
Dec 13, 2025
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Summary

A man is being charged for wiping his phone before being arrested, India is considering enabling GPS tracking on all mobile devices, a remote code execution vulnerability is exploiting over 30 organisations and 70k IP addresses, RAM shortages are causing massive increases in RAM costs, and much more, join us for This Week In Privacy #31! (00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Start of podcast (01:47) - Site updates (05:30) - Atlanta activist charged with wiping phone before CBP search (21:46) - Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it’ll really work (41:46) - AI browsing in Brave Nightly now available for early testing (57:04) - Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan (01:09:13) - India considers enforcing A-GPS on Mobile Devices (01:15:38) - React2Shell flaw exploited to breach 30 orgs, 77k IP addresses vulnerable (01:24:04) - Forum updates (01:29:01) - Q&A (01:44:08) - Outro ★ Support this podcast ★