[jes]

Their phones were to be surrendered as part of an investigation. Wiping them is destroying records.

It’s different if you’re just returning a work phone, or preparing to sell or transfer a personal phone.

When members of a group do it more or less en masse, it implies that they have something to hide.

[c0nducktr]

> Their phones were to be surrendered as part of an investigation. Wiping them is destroying records.

Yeah, isn't that very literally obstruction of justice?

[crocodiletears]

Only if they decide it is, or if a judge is willing to learn that their entire family decided to commit seppuku while they were at work.