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Media Alert: EFF Argues Against Forced Unlocking of Phone in Indiana Supreme Court Justices to Consider Fifth Amendment Right Against Self-Incrimination Wabash, IN—At 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 18, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue to the Indiana Supreme Court that police cannot force a criminal suspect to turn over a passcode or otherwise decrypt her cell phone. The case is Katelin Seo v. State of Indiana. The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution states that people cannot be forced to incriminate themselves, and it’s well settled that this privilege against self-incrimination covers compelled “testimonial” communications, including physical acts. However, courts have split over how to apply the Fifth Amendment to compelled decryption of encrypted devices. Along with the ACLU, EFF responded to an open invitation from the Indiana Supreme Court to file an amicus brief in this important case. In Thursday’s hearing, EFF Senior Staff Attorney Andrew Crocker will...

Over the last few years, our society’s consumption of video content has never been higher. YouTube users alone watch 46,000 years of videos on an annual basis. Now, video is extending beyond the domain of humans. More and more machines are watching video and are interpreting the data they “see” to drive business decisions by using industrial edge applications. Emerging technologies that enable integrated video analytics (IVA) are impacting a broad set of applications across a wide variety of environments including buildings, hospitals, vehicles, and factories. In the case of manufacturing, video analytics applications are helping to increase throughput, reduce energy consumption, and improve overall product quality. The great enablers of these kinds of benefits, high definition video cameras, are providing information in such detail that real time decision-making is significantly enhanced. Examples abound of how IVA is impacting people’s lives. The U.S. Department of Homeland Sec...