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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by throwaway542134 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:33PM (#20569891)
The fourth amendment covers search and seizure by the government, not the willful disclosure of information to a company by a user.

But I get what you mean. Even without getting into my inherent distrust of facial recognition systems and the security/privacy implications of creating the infrastructure for it to work reliably, biometrics are usernames. They shouldn't be used as passwords.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by brian-armstrong on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:36PM (#20569925)
I wasn't clear with what I meant, sorry. I was referring to how face unlock can be compelled but passwords cannot, though I realize now this is actually 5th amendment.
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