Police can force you to unlock your phone and other biometric-enabled devices, according to a circuit-court judge. Under the fifth amendment, citizens do not have to comply with police demands to unlock password-protected devices, which is great. But what if your phone’s privacy is protected by your fingerprint? Then, according to this precedent, police have all the access they want to it. How is this legal, and what trouble to people face as technology improves faster than the laws? Kim Horcher, Ivan van Norman (Creator: Outbreak Deep Space) and Jenna Busch (Legion of Leia) discuss!
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