{"id":10059,"date":"2014-11-01T16:50:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10059"},"modified":"2024-11-08T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:30:58","slug":"police-can-require-cellphone-fingerprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/01\/police-can-require-cellphone-fingerprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Can Require Cellphone Fingerprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imore.com\/court-rules-cops-can-compel-you-surrender-your-fingerprint-unlock-iphone\">Chuong H Nguyen<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/528038102229856256\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.imore.com\/court-rules-cops-can-compel-you-surrender-your-fingerprint-unlock-iphone\"><p>A Virginia Beach Circuit Court judge ruled that law enforcement officials can compel you to unlock your smartphone with a fingerprint, but that they can't force you to enter in your passcode or password to unlock your device. Judge Steven Frucci says that obtaining a fingerprint is like obtaining a DNA sample or a physical key, things that would have to be surrendered in an investigation anyways. Passcodes would be considered knowledge, and not a physical object, so they deserve more protection under the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/police-can-require-cellphone-fingerprint-not-pass-code\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/police-can-require-cellphone-fingerprint-not-pass-code\/\"><p>A workaround for this, if you&rsquo;re interested, is to simply shut off your iOS device before the police seize it; it will require the passcode when it wakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuong H Nguyen (via Daniel Jalkut): A Virginia Beach Circuit Court judge ruled that law enforcement officials can compel you to unlock your smartphone with a fingerprint, but that they can't force you to enter in your passcode or password to unlock your device. Judge Steven Frucci says that obtaining a fingerprint is like obtaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-11-08T20:30:59Z","apple_news_api_id":"3761960f-a4d1-4d0d-be77-943427f7583d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-11-08T20:30:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AN2GWD6TRTQ2-d5Q0J_dYPQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,85,2686,209,355,573],"class_list":["post-10059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-law-enforcement","tag-legal","tag-privacy","tag-touch-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10060,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions\/10060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}