During a search, law enforcement cannot force an individual to divulge their smart phone passcode, but the use of biometric features to unlock a phone is another story. However, in a potentially landmark decision, a California judge recently ruled that police cannot force individuals to unlock their mobile phones with face or fingerprint recognition -… Read More »
Supreme Court Rules Cellphone Records Off Limits
In an age of advancing technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court is defining Fourth Amendment rights case by case. In what is seen as the most important privacy case of the digital era, CARPENTER v. UNITED STATES , the Court ruled that the government cannot force cellphone companies to provide users’ locations over significant periods of… Read More »