Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,...
by reactordev on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:25PM
(#38659031)
If they have a warrant, they can force you under threat of legal action if you don't comply. If they don't have a warrant, you can claim the 4th. If they try to get you to divulge the password/code/secret, you plead the 5th. If you let them in, well... Politely tell them they are no longer welcome. Please leave. If they don't comply, they are trespassing (unless they have a warrant, in which case none of the above applies and you're probably going to jail, wear clean underwear).
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,...
by RajT88 on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:55PM
(#38659295)
I have to wonder how much of this goes on without a warrant, just pressuring people into it.
News articles suggests this happens a lot at the borders or during customs.
Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,...
by wrs on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:18PM
(#38659518)
A border crossing is an entirely different realm where these rules do not apply.
Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,...
by bubbleRefuge on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:31PM
(#38660583)
Yeah. I believe they can look in your phone.
Re:Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police,...
by u32480932048 on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:34PM
(#38661752)
See also, the 100-mile "constitution free zone" in which around 2/3rds of the country live.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2018/03/23/two-th...