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Constitutional Law

Mar. 6, 2014

Encryption issues under Fifth Amendment purview

The Digital Revolution that gave us our laptops, tablets and GPS-enabled smartphones is poised to change the way law enforcement does business in at least two potentially significant ways.

2nd Appellate District, Division 2

Brian M. Hoffstadt

Associate Justice
California Court of Appeal

UCLA School of Law, 1995

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The Digital Revolution that gave us our laptops, tablets and GPS-enabled smartphones is poised to change the way law enforcement does business in at least two potentially significant ways. Our devices store vast amounts of data and leave an electronic "paper trail" documenting where we go on- and off-line as well as who we talk to; when aggregated, this data can reconstruct our daily lives with frightening accuracy. Our devices also store information digitally, which now makes it possibl...

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