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YouTuber Reckless Ben had his entire Google account subpoenaed in LEGO investigation
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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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Thanks, appreciate the clarity.
I hope its as simple as that.
It's not. This reply is incredibly naive. They can compel you to give the password to your phone, why wouldn't they be able to compel you to give the password to your encryption? There's a reason so many cases are solved via phone contents even though that's "testifying against yourself". If they have a warrant and you refuse you'll definitely be charged with obstruction. Also in court there's a concept where if you refuse to provide evidence the court/jury is instructed to assume that it's as bad as it can possibly be, making sure you're going to lose.
This reply is incredibly wrong. They cannot compel you to give your password. This is super basic 5th amendment stuff. Start reading.
There is/was a guy being held in jail because he wouldn't give his hard drive encryption password. https://goldsteinmehta.com/blog/limits-on-federal-civil-contempt
18 months is a long time.
After looking into it more there seems to be a "circuit split". US vs Brown said passwords were protected, so it seems undecided.
Your particular instance seems to be unique in that they knew for a fact that the drives has child pornography. Both from the testimony of the sister and from the logs of the Mac that they were attached to.
Sort of. If law enforcement already knows the information that would be unlocked by the password they can compel you to unlock it through the "foregone conclusion" exception. They can also compel you to unlock a fingerprint scanner.
Just say you don’t remember it.
That's what I thought, hence the "I hope...". I wasn't hopeful with the "I hope..." 😁.
I just don't trust nowadays that there are enough or sufficient safeguards for people, regardless of what way their data is stored. OK you might hold out and not give them your encryption key from your head, and on that singular point you technically win, but at what cost with the litany of other things you will be nailed for, as you have outlined. You can think about that win from your prison cell I guess?
Loss is almost predetermined in situations like this.
Most of this seems to relate mainly to the US, and I dont live there, but this shit is still frightening.
I would guess this is the case everywhere. If there was, "I don't want to give you evidence" loophole so many people would walk away no problem. I mean, this literally how Alex Jones lost. They refused to comply with discovery so the judge said you lose, let's go to the judgement phase. There was no trial.