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A comment on FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app cont... by vorpalhex on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:28PM (#29397710)
Your statement on the 5th amendment is no longer accurate broadly, but the matter still has some cross-jurisdictional disagreement: https://americanlegalnews.com/biometrics-covered-by-fifth-am...
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Re:FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app cont... by torstenvl on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:52PM (#29397968)
District courts don't make law. Magistrates working for those district courts even less so. The case this news article cites has no precedential value anywhere - not even within N.D.Cal. - and should not be relied upon.

IAAL but IANYL

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Re:FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app cont... by kingcharles on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:37PM (#29398857)
Agreed. That decision is unlikely to be repeated by any appellate court. IMO, all the rulings on biometrics not being testimonial are constitutionally correct, even if that sucks. A lot of constitutional rulings suck.

The real solution is for a federal statute to require warrants.

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