Pauls' Revere
05-04-2018, 11:27 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/police-using-corpses-unlock-phones-191500603.html
Police in Largo, Florida recently tried to use a dead man's finger to open his phone. This was to the complete astonishment of his family and probably also staff at the Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home. Detectives just rolled right in with Linus F. Phillip's phone and asked staff where his corpse was. They then attempted to unlock his phone by pressing his hands and fingers on to the fingerprint sensor.
Apparently we don't have an expectation of privacy after we die. It sounds diabolical, but damn if it isn't America's newest law enforcement trend. They aren't just playing with your cold, dead hands, they're using it to access your selfies, dick pics, cat pics, drunk DMs, and anime porn search history. I mean, "look for evidence."
Like it or not, what the police did was legal -- and it's becoming a practice. In November 2016, FBI agents used the bloody finger belonging to Ohio State University killer Abdul Razak's iPhone in hopes of finding information and evidence.
With the living, as most know, a regular password or passcode is protected by the Fifth Amendment's safeguards for self-incrimination. Police can't force you to give it up. But if your device is only protected by a fingerprint, your phone and all its contents are fair game.
For instance, in May 2016, U.S. Magistrate Judge Alicia Rosenberg made headlines when she issued a warrant to search an Armenian gangster's girlfriend's phone by taking her fingerprint and unlocking her iPhone. Things would have been different had the woman been using a regular password or passcode, which is protected by the Fifth Amendment's safeguards for self-incrimination. Rosenberg's decision was preceded by a Virginia Circuit Court judge in October 2014, where it was a ruled that giving biometric data is not the same as divulging knowledge.
Police in Largo, Florida recently tried to use a dead man's finger to open his phone. This was to the complete astonishment of his family and probably also staff at the Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home. Detectives just rolled right in with Linus F. Phillip's phone and asked staff where his corpse was. They then attempted to unlock his phone by pressing his hands and fingers on to the fingerprint sensor.
Apparently we don't have an expectation of privacy after we die. It sounds diabolical, but damn if it isn't America's newest law enforcement trend. They aren't just playing with your cold, dead hands, they're using it to access your selfies, dick pics, cat pics, drunk DMs, and anime porn search history. I mean, "look for evidence."
Like it or not, what the police did was legal -- and it's becoming a practice. In November 2016, FBI agents used the bloody finger belonging to Ohio State University killer Abdul Razak's iPhone in hopes of finding information and evidence.
With the living, as most know, a regular password or passcode is protected by the Fifth Amendment's safeguards for self-incrimination. Police can't force you to give it up. But if your device is only protected by a fingerprint, your phone and all its contents are fair game.
For instance, in May 2016, U.S. Magistrate Judge Alicia Rosenberg made headlines when she issued a warrant to search an Armenian gangster's girlfriend's phone by taking her fingerprint and unlocking her iPhone. Things would have been different had the woman been using a regular password or passcode, which is protected by the Fifth Amendment's safeguards for self-incrimination. Rosenberg's decision was preceded by a Virginia Circuit Court judge in October 2014, where it was a ruled that giving biometric data is not the same as divulging knowledge.