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I think this kind of thing will keep happening until we put extra safeties in our constitutions (sorry to the UK, they don't have one :-P ). Constitutions are

I think this kind of thing will keep happening until we put extra safeties in our constitutions (sorry to the UK, they don't have one :-P ). Constitutions are pretty hard to change though, so one would need to find fairly broad wording that would protect encryption and ensure secrecy of phone content. Possibly we could extend and improve existing secrecy of correspondence provisions to also cover certain modern technologies?

seanw444 3y ago
Unless you're not talking about the US, encryption is absolutely protected multiple times over. 1A for helping to prevent government backlash on the press. 4A because they require at least a warrant to attempt to "search" anything of yours. And to some extent I'd argue 2A because it is a tool of self defense.
daveoc64 3y ago
The "banning of encryption" enjoys near 100% support among the political parties in the UK, so if there was a written constitution, it could simply be altered to allow this. The US constitution "works" because their political system doesn't.