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Re:Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or... by tialaramex on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:57PM (#18906913)
The UK fixed this for drink driving by making it an offence to refuse to submit to the alcohol tests. So they don't force you to implicate yourself for drink driving, you can choose instead to be prosecuted for refusing to provide a sample and have everybody assume (not at all unreasonably) that you refused because you knew you'd fail badly.

Sometimes people are _so_ drunk they refuse to provide a sample without really comprehending that this will itself directly lead to getting arrested and prosecuted but minus any opportunity to get the results thrown out for any reason since it'll just come down to "Officer, did the suspect refuse consent to the required sample?".

You couldn't do that exact workaround in the US because of the Constitution, but I'm sure a creative work around can be invented.

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Re:Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or... by 15155 on Monday January 14, 2019 @05:34PM (#18907189)
> You couldn't do that exact workaround in the US because of the Constitution, but I'm sure a creative work around can be invented.

The "workaround" in the United States is similar. When you apply for a driver's license, you agree to submit blood/breath/urine upon demand or lose said license automatically.

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Re:Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or... by somebehemoth on Monday January 14, 2019 @11:06PM (#18908789)
This is basically how it works in the US too. You are punished for not submitting to the test by revocation of your license and also, the refusal to submit can be used against you to help establish you were DWI.
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