Hannah Frey

And they were like, she's selling meth.

We just want to unlock your phone to see.

And they used her fingerprint there at the scene to unlock the phone.

And they were able to read messages showing that she was definitely selling drugs to people.

In court, her lawyers said, hey, this violates her Fifth Amendment right to not have to incriminate herself.

That right to not incriminate yourself is famous because we see it in movies all the time.

Oh, I plead the fifth.

And we also have been living for hundreds of years under that kind of a law.

What does that specifically mean?

It means that the contents of your own mind cannot be used by a prosecution to convict you.

Now, you can let them use it.

If you want to get caught, you can totally tell them I did it.

Right.

But you cannot be compelled to.

If you refuse to answer their questions, you cannot be penalized.

Other people, of course, can be.

That's what a subpoena is.

If you have information about something that I've done that's illegal, the court can compel you to witness against me.

But it's not inside of your own head.

And so today, when we have so much information about where we've been, what we've been saying, like actually documented on this little phone and they're locked, not within our minds, but within our devices, it becomes really important for us to answer the question,