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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 5 months ago (59 children)

Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint.

You can turn that and Face ID off on iOS by mashing the power button 5 times- it locks everything down.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

In a getting pulled over situation, this works. But do it before you go protest anything. Or better yet, leave your phone at home. You don’t want to be reaching for something while a cop is pointing a gun at you and saying “Hands up!”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention it's pretty regular to track who is participating by checking the towers in the zone all the people are participating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Or get a geofence warrant

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