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To add more examples to this, Florida courts have also ruled that you can be imprisoned for not giving police access to your phone.[1] The "police can't force
by bodz 9y ago
To add more examples to this, Florida courts have also ruled that you can be imprisoned for not giving police access to your phone.[1]
The "police can't force you to give up your passcode" misconception stems from a case in Virginia from 2014 [2], and while that may still be the case in Virginia, it does not mean you can just say "my phone is locked with a passcode, fuck off cop" in every other jurisdiction.
1: https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/01/fifth-amendement-passcodes-passwords-law/ https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/01/fifth-amendement-passcodes-pa...
2: https://9to5mac.com/2014/10/31/touch-id-police/ https://9to5mac.com/2014/10/31/touch-id-police/
- dheera 9y agoHmm, I guess I could just not carry a phone. Or just have it factory reset every morning automatically and not put any personal data on it. I hardly store anything on my phone anyway and use it pretty rarely so it wouldn't make much difference. What a world we live in.
- stephenr 9y ago> What a world we live in. s/world/country/ fixed that for you.