Comment by NitpickLawyer
15 hours ago
> refusing to provide a PIN/password is protected
In theory. In practice there's a case where a defendant is being held in contempt (jailed) for years now, for refusing to provide her encryption passwords. At that point both the 5th and the idea of contempt are busted.
> In practice there's a case where a defendant is being held in contempt (jailed) for years now, for refusing to provide her encryption passwords.
Link to story?
The only one I know of was this
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-...
> Prosecutors were able to gain access to the laptop, and police say forensic analysis showed Rawls downloading child pornography and saving it to the external hard drives.
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