First, SSD's are very secure just by design. Privacy was not the intended purpose, it was to make them more reliable to use. Unfortunately, the design of the SSD make privacy, at least from a forensics perspective, easily achievable. The data does not sit long in a portion of the drive - basically - the data moves. This makes forensics, specifically from a legal perspective, an absolute nightmare.

So from a legal perspective the data itself cannot be used against you - however - I do agree with other readers that considering whole disk encryption is a good idea. As JJ has always said, keep the data at home, don't walk around with it.

As far as EE goes, it is not perfect ... but it is very annoying to attempt to work with, assuming that someone has properly maintained EE and is operating the software as they advise. I do perform forensics and have done test cases showing how anti-forensics software, in all cases demo'ing EE. With platter drives, data can always be recovered - the real question always is how much money does an individual, local police, state, or federal agent want to spend to attempt to find the 'silver bullet'. In most cases, if the data is not easily recovered, the forensics portion is scrapped and another avenue of the investigation is launched; usually back-tracking through people.

EE is not perfect, but it certainly can drive an investigator mad when they are trying to move quickly to justify a case.