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Ruling Stands: Defendant Must Decrypt Laptop

Posted on February 24, 2012July 2, 2025 by Dissent

David Kravets reports: A federal appeals court is rejecting an appeal from a bank-fraud defendant who has been ordered to decrypt her laptop so its contents can be used in her criminal case. Colorado federal authorities seized the encrypted Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with valid court warrants while investigating alleged mortgage…

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Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Over Keys to Occupy Wall Street Protester’s Location Data Without a Warrant

Posted on February 22, 2012July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Hanni Fakhoury of EFF writes about the Twitter subpoena I previously mentioned on this blog. … The subpoena is astonishing not only for its poor grammar, but also for the breadth of information the government wants for a trivial crime that hardly requires it. The government’s request that Twitter hand over Tweets is unlikely to…

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Feds Urge Court to Reject Laptop Decryption Appeal

Posted on February 18, 2012July 2, 2025 by Dissent

David Kravets reports: The government is urging a federal appeals court not to entertain an appeal from a bank-fraud defendant who has been ordered to decrypt her laptop so its contents can be used in her criminal case. Colorado federal authorities seized the encrypted Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with valid court…

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Lawmakers to Homeland Security: Social Media Monitoring Threatens Free Speech

Posted on February 17, 2012July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Alex Fitzpatrick reports on yesterday’s Congressional hearing: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s monitoring of social media services could be a threat to civil liberties and online free speech, several lawmakers said during a hearing Thursday. According to a report by a civil liberties group called the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, DHS paid more…

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