Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
A federal magistrate judge in California has ruled that law enforcement personnel may not require suspects to unlock their phones with biometric identifiers like a fingerprint, iris scan or facial recognition, saying the practice is unconstitutional.
The decision followed the request for a search warrant in an extortion case. The prosecutors asked for an order…
In a precedential ruling, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals this week upheld a lower court’s ruling holding a criminal defendant in contempt for refusing to decrypt two external hard drives that were seized during a child pornography investigation.
During the investigation, the government seized the defendants’ property, including two iPhones, a MacBook Pro and…
