The government claimed that it is legal to enter a building and demand everyone's fingerprints, passwords, encryption keys to unlock all phones.
Whether you were in your house, or visiting someone in another house or even an apartment, you would surely not believe that cops could bust in and demand the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person there that they suspected might own a smartphone with a fingerprint sensor. That’s right, not accused of having committed any crime, but of simply owning a smartphone which can be unlocked with fingerprint biometrics. Nevertheless, in what is believed to be a first, that is exactly what a court filing in California asked for.
Whether you were in your house, or visiting someone in another house or even an apartment, you would surely not believe that cops could bust in and demand the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person there that they suspected might own a smartphone with a fingerprint sensor. That’s right, not accused of having committed any crime, but of simply owning a smartphone which can be unlocked with fingerprint biometrics. Nevertheless, in what is believed to be a first, that is exactly what a court filing in California asked for.
Sigh. I especially like this bit:
Compelling a person to provide his or her fingerprint does not implicate, let alone violate, the Fifth Amendment. The prosecutors then cite cases to support that as well as noting that the Fifth Amendment protects the accused, and as of this point, no person is being accused.
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