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Can someone clarify how if I can be compelled to unlock my password protected phone, they can't do the same with my social media, email, and other accounts? I
by alextheparrot 10y ago
Can someone clarify how if I can be compelled to unlock my password protected phone, they can't do the same with my social media, email, and other accounts? I feel like this author advocates for a stop-gap that may not even help in the long-run.
- koolba 10y agoThey can hold you indefinitely for effectively whatever reason they'd like (or really no reason). If they say they're not letting you go until you unlock your phone, you get to decide if you want to stay there in the interests of your privacy.
- alextheparrot 10y agoSorry, my question was can they do that for my account information as well? Could they setup kiosks for me to sign into Facebook? The author in the post advocated uploading my data into the cloud and factory resetting my phone, though I don't believe this will work if they can just ask me for my Facebook.
- koolba 10y agoI think they could, they just don't do it yet. The author is arguing that they wouldn't know the usernames or even the services themselves of your accounts and as such could not ask for them. I call bullshit on that (see my top level comment on this).
- thehoff 10y agoIf you have 2FA then some of those accounts may not be accessible without your phone. For instance, if I didn't bring my phone with me (which I use to authenticate) I wouldn't even be able to log in to my email. Or, taken a little further, I don't even know my email password anyways. Its locked in a password manager which requires 2FA. I would myself be locked out of almost all of my accounts if I didn't bring my phone.
- xemoka 10y agoAnd that makes resetting it a non-starter too doesn't it?
- thehoff 10y agoSure does, though my post was leaning towards leaving it at home so not resetting it (and thus not being able to login to at a kiosk). But this also raises the question of them believing me that I can't login because I don't know my password.
- squeaky-clean 10y agoThis is addressed a bit in the article. You can just tell them "I don't have a Facebook account", and there's really no easy way for them to verify this. If you're extra paranoid, you can create secondary accounts without much info and innocent posts/messages. There's no way for them to know you're logging into your border patrol FB account and not your "real" account.
- rorosaurus 10y agoI'm tempted to do something like this, but I'm worried it indicates a level of complacency with this madness.