It seems there is no clear consensus on whether, and in what circumstances, the fifth amendment applies to phone passcodes: > Earlier this year, a Philadelphia

It seems there is no clear consensus on whether, and in what circumstances, the fifth amendment applies to phone passcodes: > Earlier this year, a Philadelphia man was released from jail after four years of being held in contempt in connection with a child-pornography case. A federal appeals court rejected his argument that the Fifth Amendment gave him the right to refuse to unlock hard drives found in his possession. A Vermont federal court reached the same conclusion in 2009—as did a Colorado federal court in 2012, a Virginia state court in 2014, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 2014. But other courts in Florida, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania have reached the opposite conclusion, holding that forcing people to provide computer or smartphone passwords would violate the Fifth Amendment.