A safe deposit box (or safety deposit box) is an individually secured container that stays in the safe or vault of a federally insured bank or credit ... Office of the New York State Comptroller.

We think of safe deposit boxes as secure, but they're really not. Worst of all, your own bank can decide to drill it open for a long list of reasons. If that happens, here's what to do.

The FBI seized hundreds of safe deposit boxes belonging to people who weren't charged with a crime. An appeals court will decide if the government violated their rights.

Fourth Amendment. Federal Judge Decides Safe Deposit Boxes Aren't Safe From FBI Judge Gary Klausner admits that the FBI probably hid their true motives in rifling through the contents of hundreds ...

One drawback of using a safe deposit box in the United States was that neither banks nor the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), established in 1933, insured the contents—a stipulation ...

The privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills.

The FBI violated the Fourth Amendment when its agents rifled through the contents of more than 700 safe-deposit boxes in the aftermath ... referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office, ...