[candiddevmike]

Maybe we need a statue of limitations for encrypted data to help with future proofing/make the collection useless in a court of law? If you go to lengths to encrypt your data, there should be some current and future expectation of privacy around it, even if someone can decrypt it.

[Boogie_Man]

To my understanding, despite variance from state to state, a general "rule of thumb" for the statute of limitations outside of "the big R" and "the big M" is ten years. This squares with the generic declassification timetable. I can't think of anything I'm genuinely upset about from more than a decade ago. I feel that I am an almost completely different person than I was a decade ago. If I found out someone robbed a bank ten years ago I'd be more inclined to think "That's wild, how did that go?" than I am "Oh no this guy is going to rob me".