By Sara Beth A.R. Kohut, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP   The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently addressed the novel question of whether a person can be compelled to provide a password to allow law enforcement to access the contents of an encrypted device. Reversing an order of the Superior Court, the high court
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By Sara Beth A.R. Kohut, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP   The highest court of Massachusetts recently held that a suspect can be compelled to enter his passcode to unlock and decrypt his cell phone where the government showed the suspect’s knowledge of the passcode was a foregone conclusion.   In Commonwealth v. Jones,
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