It was only a few months ago, towards the end of 2018, that we heard about a novel method that law enforcement officials were using to break into suspects’ phones. In the case of an iPhone X owned by a 28-year-old suspect caught up in a child abuse investigation that was protected by Apple’s Face ID technology, the feds after raiding the suspect’s home just … held up the phone and demanded he look at it so the device would unlock. The suspect did so, which allowed the feds to poke through his online chats, photos and more.
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Judge’s ruling forbids police from forcing suspects to unlock their phones with biometrics originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 20:28:33 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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