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I'm not in the legal profession, but I don't see those two as equivalent at all. Are you sure those are legally equivalent? The first case allows police to mak
by philovivero 10y ago
I'm not in the legal profession, but I don't see those two as equivalent at all. Are you sure those are legally equivalent?
The first case allows police to make a search they couldn't make before.
The second is... I don't even know what. I would expect if you wanted them to be equivalent, you'd make the second more like: "We know you hid the body in your yard. Unlock your gate so we can enter and find it."
- smaddox 10y agoHow is an encryption key different from any other piece of information that could be used to intimate you? It's not a physical object that can be searched.
- pyrophane 10y agoThe key difference between the two is what is revealed by the disclosure that they are trying to compel. In the case of the hard drives, providing the decryption key establishes only that the drives belong to him or that he at least has access to the information they contain. In the second case showing the police where a body is located is in itself strong evidence that he was involved in the crime.
- oarsinsync 10y agoHaving access to information contained on disks that is considered illegal to access is strong evidence that he was involved in the crime.