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Re:The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people by stordoff on Friday October 18, 2019 @06:31PM (#21295596)
It was done to Ulbricht:

> But at 3:15 p.m., the quiet was broken when, out of nowhere, a young woman in street clothes charged toward Ulbricht yelling, "I'm so sick of you!" and grabbed his laptop. Ulbricht leapt from his seat to grab it back, when the half dozen other readers at nearby tables suddenly lunged for him, pushing him up against a window.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dead-end-o...

Though the British police are using it as well:

> Undercover surveillance officers trailed Yew and waited for him to unlock his phone to make a call - thereby disabling the encryption. One officer then rushed in to seize the phone from Yew's hand

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38183819

Re:The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people by Volundr on Saturday October 19, 2019 @10:13AM (#21298581)
What about this cases is "forcing suspects to give up their PINs and lying to say it was voluntary."? Both of these was swiftly executing an arrest warrant before the suspect had an opportunity to lock or destroy their device.... seems reasonable. Definitely no lying to say they handed it over voluntarily.
Re:The Pixel 4’s face unlock works on sleeping people by scarface74 on Saturday October 19, 2019 @10:42AM (#21298745)
You really haven’t heard about the multitude of cases where DA’s and law enforcement were complicit in convicting innocent people? Do you think that a justice system where DA’s actually put a “B” by Black potential jurors to find a reason to keep them off the jury (the case went to the Supreme Court), or the case where an eye witness didn’t say anything about facial tattoos, the police wanted to convict someone, so they used Photoshop to remove tattoos from the person they wanted to convict so they would “fit the description” would be above forcing a suspect to unlock their phone?

If the government will condone torture to get information out of people because of the “War on Terror”, why wouldn’t they do the same for the “War on Drugs”?