Re:Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or...
by tzs on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:57PM
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That could work if knowledge of the password itself is all they are trying to pin on you.
Usually, though, they are going to be after what the password is protecting. If you try to invoke the 5th claiming that admitting knowledge of the password itself would be incriminating, prosecutors can grant you immunity over that and that greatly reduces your 5th Amendment protections with regard to that particular subject.
Usually, though, they are going to be after what the password is protecting. If you try to invoke the 5th claiming that admitting knowledge of the password itself would be incriminating, prosecutors can grant you immunity over that and that greatly reduces your 5th Amendment protections with regard to that particular subject.