Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules::Phone-unlocking case law is “total mess,” may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Nope, each state is doing its own thing and the 5th ammendment is being trampled in a few of them. Biometrics and passwords are being forced and this is an amazing ruling for 5A advocates like myself.

    SC needs to rule on it, but preferably not THIS supreme court

      • starman2112@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        My understanding was that most of them got got because their cell companies knew where they were, not because of the contents of their phones

        But also, I’d rather let every Jan Sixer go free than imprison one innocent person because they looked up textfiles.com two years ago and found out how to make meth