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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by jhauris on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:05AM (#27503437)
This is something that varies state to state. Quick search shows that Pennsylvania considers giving up a password as self-incriminating testimony (protected by the 5th amendment), while Massachusetts does not. They can generally force you to use biometrics to unlock or give them a physical key anywhere, however.

This seems to be an actively developing area of law around the world.

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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by vmception on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:27AM (#27503737)
Hold power button on iphone and it disables biometric without turning off the device

They might still have a way to image it though, depends on the day as the imaging software always gets thwarted

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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by vmception on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:48PM (#27510734)
Power+volume whoops

Also believe it depends on the model but the 12 pro does it like this and a few models before

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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by aaron-santos on Monday June 14, 2021 @12:17PM (#27504442)
On the subject of the fifth amendment, there was a (possibly) non-serious theory that having one's password be the admission of guilt to a crime would serve as protection as revealing the password would actual be self-incriminating. Like most legal theories on the internet, it (probably) isn't true.
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