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Two civil-liberties groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on an increasingly relevant digital-privacy question: Do Americans have a constitutional right to keep their passwords and passcodes secret?
It’s a thorny legal issue, and one that is unsettled in the U.S., according to lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who on Thursday filed a petition with the Supreme Court asking it to decide the matter once and for all.
The Supreme Court's reasoning in Carpenter v. United states shows a leaning towards privacy...the makeup of the court has changed since that time. Carpenter v US (4a Cell location data) (buzzsprout.com)