NoCrackingZone | Tag | Fifth Amendment

Suspect who refused to decrypt hard drives released after four years

The US Court of Appeals ruled that he couldn’t continue to be held for refusing to give up his passcodes.

We have to protect the constitutional rights of the innocent, and that can mean shielding guilty-as-hell child abusers, the court said.

It’s not a violation of her Fifth Amendment rights, the court said, because it’s a “foregone conclusion” that she knows her phone passcode.

A Massachusetts federal district judge gave cops a warrant to force-unlock iPhones with the suspect’s fingers.

The landmark decision asserts the same legal protection for biometrics that we’re given for passcodes.

The government isn’t really after the password, after all; it’s after any potential evidence it protects. In other words: fishing expedition.

The order so far hasn’t raised Fifth Amendment objections either, your face being something you are, rather than something you know.

A suspect will be jailed for 14 months for refusing to hand over his Facebook password to detectives investigating a 13-year-old’s murder.

Police want to unlock the iPhone of a woman who accused a man of rape after it was alleged that she was actually stalking him.

The phones are new, he said, and he can’t remember the passcodes.