Supreme Court encryption rulings will explicitly urge Congress to update laws
Erin Murphy · a16z Podcast | Tech Policy and the Courts · Jan 2, 2019 · at 19:48
Legal scholar Erin Murphy discusses how the Supreme Court will handle digital privacy and encryption cases given outdated congressional statutes.
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“I suspect, however the court ends up dealing with it, there will be a lot of language in someone's opinion saying, Congress, please fix all this, because they, and you saw that in a few of these recent cases of theirs, where they're like, look, we shouldn't be figuring this out in the first instance.”
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