The Ongoing Legal Battle: Biometrics, 5th Amendment, and Phone Decryption

With modern smartphones, screen locks like passcodes or biometric locks, such as fingerprint or facial recognition, encrypt the data on the phone. This encryption means that the data from the phone’s hard drive is largely inaccessible without the screen being unlocked, making this issue all the more potent.

The Ongoing Legal Battle: Biometrics, 5th Amendment, and Phone Decryption