{"id":242,"date":"2011-07-18T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2011-07-18T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:28:17","slug":"fifth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EFF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/press\/archives\/2011\/07\/08\">has filed a friend of the court brief in a Colorado federal courtroom<\/a>, asserting that compelling a defendant to reveal the password to her computer&#8217;s encrypted hard drive is a violation of the Fifth Amendment. This will be an interesting legal precedent; I don&#8217;t think that the British tactic of holding someone in contempt until their password is revealed has been used here in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EFF has filed a friend of the court brief in a Colorado federal courtroom, asserting that compelling a defendant to reveal the password to her computer&#8217;s encrypted hard drive is a violation of the Fifth Amendment. This will be an interesting legal precedent; I don&#8217;t think that the British tactic of holding someone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}