The Law of Unintended Consequences is operating in Silicon Valley, as it does everywhere.  In the wake of the FBI’s attempt to force Apple to break its own encryption on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, high-tech companies are realizing that the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure no longer operate as they once did. Elizabeth Dwoskin writes in the Washington Post: “We have to keep as little [information] as possible so that even if the government or some other entity wanted access to it, we’d be able to say that we don’t have it,” said Gadea, founder and chief executive of Envoy. The 30-person company enables businesses to register visitors using iPads instead of handwritten visitor logs. The technology tracks who works at a firm, who visits the firm, and their contact information. In Silicon Valley, there’s a new emphasis on putting up barriers to government...(Read Full Post)