BitLocker encryption keys provided to law enforcement by Microsoft raise concerns about digital privacy as encrypted data ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday. Many modern Windows ...

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

Did our AI summary help? Microsoft has provided the FBI with BitLocker recovery keys to unlock encrypted hard drives on seized laptops, according to a report by Forbes. The disclosure highlights a ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption recovery keys following a warrant request, allowing federal agents to decrypt hard drives belonging to suspects in an alleged fraud investigation ...

Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse. Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential ...

Anyone who encrypts their hard drive or SSD can actually assume that only they can decrypt it again. However, with Microsoft's BitLocker encryption technology, this doesn't seem to be necessarily the ...

District Court of Guam Magistrate Judge Michael Bordallo set a Sept. 22 trial for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program fraud ring case involving seven defendants, among them close family ...

The mass killing of 14 people in San Bernardino in December 2015 saw the FBI trying to access what it described as “relevant and critical data” on the locked iPhone of one of the shooters. The agency ...