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It would be cool if entering some special code erased everything but the contact info for your lawyer.

Maybe it could be better still. Send out some automated texts, erase everything but the number for your lawyer, and start recording audio and video and storing them on a remote server when possible.

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Which is why you get handcuffed and not allowed to use your phone. You think you're being big and clever but if the phone contained evidence you'd be looking at attempting to pervert the course of justice (cf Rebecca Brooks right now). Pretty much every police van already has constantly running video, all the custody areas of police stations do. And unlike the US that video doesn't get "lost" if you make any complaint.

If they ask you for the password you could give them the one that erases all data :P.

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