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Police want the password to your phone (reason.com)

submitted 1 month ago by throws_lemy to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

I mean, they can do that if biometrics are disabled altogether too. Encryption isn’t really what’s at issue with biometrics vs. passcodes. In the US police can force you to put you to input a biometric but they can’t force you to enter a passcode.

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