Police Should Not Be Allowed to Compel Our Cell Phone Passwords

Photo credit: McLittle Stock / Shutterstock. Article by Urooba Abid. ACLU.org – June 22, 2023.

An Illinois Supreme Court decision illustrates the judicial divide over our Fifth Amendment rights in the digital age.

Our cell phones and other digital devices play a central role in our private lives, storing an unprecedented amount of our most personal information. While Carpenter v. United States, which the ACLU argued before the Supreme Court, applied Fourth Amendment protections to our cell phone location data and declared that old-world legal rules don’t automatically apply in the digital age, the role of Fifth Amendment protections in the digital age has left lower courts divided. […]

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