Well, you probably should not be using your finger print to unlock anything anyway. Most of those sensors are (or at least used to be) fairly easily fooled.
But now that they say they can force you to unlock your phone with a fingerprint... Don't enable that feature for your phone. Simple as that.
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From the post:
>The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The ruling does not apply to all cases in which biometrics are used to unlock an electronic device but is a significant decision in an unsettled area of the law.
The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit had to grapple with the question of "whether the compelled use of Payne's thumb to unlock his phone was testimonial," the ruling in United States v. Jeremy Travis Payne said. "To date, neither the Supreme Court nor any of our sister circuits have addressed whether the compelled use of a biometric to unlock an electronic device is testimonial."
Well, you probably should not be using your finger print to unlock *anything* anyway. Most of those sensors are (or at least used to be) fairly easily fooled.
But now that they say they can force you to unlock your phone with a fingerprint... Don't enable that feature for your phone. Simple as that.
Archive: https://archive.today/k8PWN
From the post:
>>The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The ruling does not apply to all cases in which biometrics are used to unlock an electronic device but is a significant decision in an unsettled area of the law.
The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit had to grapple with the question of "whether the compelled use of Payne's thumb to unlock his phone was testimonial," the ruling in United States v. Jeremy Travis Payne said. "To date, neither the Supreme Court nor any of our sister circuits have addressed whether the compelled use of a biometric to unlock an electronic device is testimonial."
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