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Re:I recommend against using biometric identification by bodz on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @05:51PM (#15233184)
To add more examples to this, Florida courts have also ruled that you can be imprisoned for not giving police access to your phone.[1]

The "police can't force you to give up your passcode" misconception stems from a case in Virginia from 2014 [2], and while that may still be the case in Virginia, it does not mean you can just say "my phone is locked with a passcode, fuck off cop" in every other jurisdiction.

1: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/01/fifth-amendement-passcodes-pa...

2: https://9to5mac.com/2014/10/31/touch-id-police/

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Re:I recommend against using biometric identification by dheera on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @07:52PM (#15234144)
Hmm, I guess I could just not carry a phone. Or just have it factory reset every morning automatically and not put any personal data on it. I hardly store anything on my phone anyway and use it pretty rarely so it wouldn't make much difference. What a world we live in.
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Re:I recommend against using biometric identification by stephenr on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:21PM (#15235010)
> What a world we live in.

s/world/country/ fixed that for you.

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