Court Says Fifth Amendment Covers Smartphone Passcodes, But It's Hardly A Victory For Constitutional Rights

Techdirt
Sep. 29, 2015

A recent opinion issued in a prosecution by the Securities and Exchange Commission seems to indicate the government can't force members of the public to hand over passwords without violating the Fifth Amendment. But the details suggest something else: that this is limited to a very specific set of circumstances and is not in any way precedential, at least not at this point.

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