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> On some phones you can set a PIN that destroys everything

Even better, you can set a pin to only destroy specific data. Less chance of arousing suspicion.

What phones actually do that though? I wonder what happens if you tell a police officer you may hold data that they may not hold the security clearance to see through though? Those are legitimate cases, what happens then? Weird.

Edit: I guess my case makes more sense as a question of what happens in the US in such a case, but the former question is a general one.

Such a device would usually have a standard label to indicate that fact.

Not everything has such a label on it. People use work emails on their phones for example which could contain just about anything.

One might have unclass or SBU e-mail on their work phone but it would be very problematic if there was actual classified data on a "regular" device.

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