Hanni Fakhoury on Encrypted Data
Our computers now hold years of email with family and friends, Internet browsing histories, financial and medical information, and the ability to access our online services like Facebook. People are right to use passwords and encryption to safeguard this data, and they deserve the law’s full protection against the use of it against them.
Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is urging a federal court in Colorado to block the government’s attempt to force a woman to enter a password into an encrypted laptop — it has argued in an amicus brief that it would violate her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
