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[USA] Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone (reason.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Boozilla@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

face based and fingerprint based unlocking schemes is a bad idea.

if you dead someone can still unlock your phone with your corpse

[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You are unable to care at that point though.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Stealing from an dead person is still stealing.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -1 points 4 months ago

From their heirs, maybe.

I consider the real question to be how they ended up dead but you do you.