Feds use search warrant to make everyone in building unlock their phones

[Daitengu]

Better find place to stash your porn collection other than your phones boys an girls .... ol scammy demands to see contents of your phone at anytime ...... in the latest move by big brother to oppress .... erm.... care for everyones safety feds used a search warrent to make everyone in building unlock their phones so they could check the contents of the phones ..
.... so much for right to privacy and protection from illegal searches ..... in amerika you have no rights and are guilty until scammy says otherwise ...... enjoy your freedumb an dumbocrappy .......  remember big brother is watching you .....
kiss your rights an privacy goodbye .....

[senona]

Per the article.....

If the cops show up with a search warrant, well, you expect they can search the premises. But showing up with a warrant that says every single person on a certain property has to unlock their fingerprint-reading phones and present them for search, too? That’s… pretty surprising. And yet, it turns out, earlier this year, that’s what happened in California.

What happened, Forbes spotted, is this: the Justice Department wanted a warrant to search a property in California. So far, so good.
But that warrant included language authorizing investigators to “depress the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person who is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES during the execution of the search and who is reasonably believed by law enforcement to be the user of a fingerprint sensor-enabled device that is located at the SUBJECT PREMISES and falls within the scope of the warrant.”


In other words: with that warrant, cops can walk a house or apartment building and demand literally everyone inside immediately use their fingerprints to unlock their phones for inspection. To search the entire contents every single device, whether it belongs to an identified suspect or not, that may exist at the search location.

Wow, just wow.

And I suppose if one argued with the cops as to 'what' exactly they were looking for on the phone, that person would be threatened with arrest, huh.


But wait...so pin numbers are a safer way to go it sounds

In Virginia, in 2014, a court ruled that cops can’t force you to reveal a passcode to your phone. That would be making you say something, and you have the right not to say things.

But, that same court held, fingerprints, body language, and other more body-based, physical things are discrete from things you say, and therefore fingerprints are fair game. That’s in line with a 1966 Supreme Court case Forbes mentions that found self-incrimination protections don’t apply to the use of your body as evidence “when it may be material.”

I myself have never found the use of fingerprint scan alluring.
Just rather type in pin # and change it out every so often.

Fingerprints are just so......personal.
And where ever they are held, whether a data base or processor whatever, seems like your identity as a whole would be vulnerable.



But yeah, I call bullshit on warrants covering EVERYONE on the premise.
It should only be applied to the apartment/house of the resident they are  looking for.