Police Told to Avoid Looking at iPhone Screens Locked With Face ID
14th October 2018
Police in the United States are being advised not to look at iPhone screens secured with Face ID, because doing so could disable facial authentication and leave investigators needing a potentially harder-to-obtain passcode to gain access.
I may have to get one of these. For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, the current state of the law is that passcodes are covered by the 4th Amendment while face-id and touch-id aren’t. Police can force you to touch or face a phone to unlock it, but to get your passcode they need a warrant.