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| DATE | 2016-09-06 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] All-Writ, the FBI and contempt of court
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has anyone followed the imprisonment and months long interment in
Solitary Confinement of Francis Rawls, of Philadelphia? He is accused
of watching child pornography and they are holding him in contempt of
court because his systems are locked with cryptography.
https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=francis+rawls
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/technology/former-officer-is-jailed-months-without-charges-over-encrypted-drives.html
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A former police sergeant has been held without charges in a federal
detention cell in Philadelphia, part of an effort by the authorities to
pressure him to decrypt two computer hard drives believed to contain
child pornography.
The case reveals yet another battle line for law enforcement and digital
privacy advocates over encryption, this time on an Apple computer, not
an iPhone.
The sergeant, Francis Rawls, was ordered by a federal court last August
to hand over the two hard drives, which were seized from his home
because they were suspected to contain the illegal pornography.
Mr. Rawls was shown to a private room at the district attorney’s office
to comply with the order. Once there, according to a court document, he
spent most of the time staring at the computer and then said he could
not remember the passwords to turn off FileVault, a feature of Macs that
encrypts hard drives when a user logs out. He was taken into custody,
and this week he started his eighth month in a federal detention center,
all without ever being charged with a crime.
Mr. Rawls’s case is the latest in a growing number of legal battles over
digital privacy in the United States. The challenges are playing out in
courts across the country, propelling a national debate over when the
government can compel individuals or companies to disclose codes or
passwords giving access to private data.
“Not only is he presently being held without charges, but he has never
in his life been charged with a crime,” Keith M. Donoghue, his federal
public defender, wrote in a motion last week seeking his client’s release.
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