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Submission + - 4th/5th Amendment rights being curtailed by for failure to unlock mobile devices (fox13news.com) 1

devoid42 writes: In a Tampa, Florida courtroom, Judge Gregory Holder held William Montanez in contempt of court for failure to unlock a mobile device. What led to this was a frightening slippery slope that threatens our 4th Amendment rights to the core. Montanez was stopped for a failure to yield violation, after being pulled over the officer asked to search his car, after Montanez refused, the officer held him until a drug dog was brought in to give the officer enough probable cause to search the vehicle. They found a misdemeanor amount of marijuana, which they used to arrest Montenez, but they asked to search his cellphones which he also refused. They were able to secure a warrant for those as well, but Montenez claimed he had forgotten his password. The result, being held in contempt of court and serving a 6 month jail sentence.

Submission + - Apple blocking updates to Telegram in multiple regions

devoid42 writes: Muiltiple articles report Arsetechnica / The Verge that Apple is restricting updates to Telegram around the world, the outage corresponds with the Russian ban request for the secure message app. No response from Apple as to the reason, though preventing security updates globally in response to one countries request seems to be quite a miss judgement.

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