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> If your company has data that the police want and they can get a warrant, you have no choice but to give it to them. They can fight the warrant, if you don't
by armada651 9mo ago
> If your company has data that the police want and they can get a warrant, you have no choice but to give it to them.
They can fight the warrant, if you don't at least object to it then "giving the keys away" is not an incorrect characterization.
- plagiarist 9mo agoThis is my thought also. So they're only holding the keys to prevent anyone from whining about lost data, they don't actually want to be responsible.
- jasonfarnon 9mo agoIn court? Not really. These warrants are on solid ground from a legal standpoint. To the point that fighting them could be a sanction-able kind of grandstanding.
- armada651 9mo agoSanction-able? I'm not saying you shouldn't comply with a valid warrant, I'm saying that you should object to whether there was probable cause for the warrant.
- jasonfarnon 9mo agoYeah you shouldn't object in bad faith. I.e., you need to genuinely believe there's no probably cause here, and that's not a reasonable position.
- armada651 9mo agoIf they don't have any evidence that'd lead them to believe the data they're searching for is on that laptop, then you can reasonably object that there's no probable cause to search the laptop.