FYI: Yeah, the Cops Can Force Your Finger Onto a Suspect’s iPhone to See if It Unlocks, Says Judge
24th April 2019
A US judge gave the cops permission to force people’s fingers onto seized iPhones to see who could unlock them, a newly unsealed search warrant has revealed.
There is a story, don’t know whether it’s true, about a French Foreign Legion officer who was so offended by the prospect of police taking his fingerprints that he put his fingertips on a red-hot stove, guaranteeing that all they would get would be scar tissue.
I imagine that this applies to Apple’s ‘face recognition’ as well.
Which is why I use a complicated passphrase rather than any of the it’s-convenent-to-you-and-even-more-convenient-to-the-state ways of unlocking my phone.