What do the police need to do to seize your laptop? Can the government force you to turn over passwords or encryption keys? What are the situations in which your data is particularly vulnerable, and what steps can you take to protect it? This talk will teach attendees about their legal rights in information stored on laptops and other digital devices, including at the United States border or other places where the data may be particularly at risk. This talk will also provide practical advice on when to do when the police want to seize computers and how to secure device accessible information, whether on a hard drive or stored remotely.
Marcia Hofmann is a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she focuses on computer crime and security, electronic privacy, free speech, and other digital civil liberties issues. She is also a non-residential fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining EFF, Marcia was staff counsel and Director of the Open Government Project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).