Police and your phone privacy

[about_average]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-a-suspect-unlock-a-phone-with-a-fingerprint/

Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint, but not with a password.

 

[cjh]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-a-suspect-unlock-a-phone-with-a-fingerprint/

Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint, but not with a password.

Sort of like being able to take your blood without your consent but not being able to force you to confess how much you had to drink.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

My phone unlocks itself and randomly calls people. I think it gets lonely.

 

[Hard_Rom]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-a-suspect-unlock-a-phone-with-a-fingerprint/

Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint, but not with a password.

Also saves time from getting a search warrant and an online Apple tech.

 

[kbate]

Here comes the next app:

Index finger = unlock, middle finger = memory wipe.

Knowing which finger to use on the phone, is protected knowledge.

 

[Sean]

Funny, the dibble over here are complaining about phones being remotely wiped after they've seized them for evidence.

 

[Ishmael]

Here comes the next app:

Index finger = unlock, middle finger = memory wipe.

Knowing which finger to use on the phone, is protected knowledge.

Clever girl.

Ishmael

 

[kbate]

Clever girl.

Ishmael

I only wish I could write it. Sadly I'm better with ideas than with coding.

 

[kbate]

Perhaps requiring a sequence of fingerprints in order to unlock the phone.

Anything that requires 'knowledge' rather than just a biometric avoids this ruling and keeps the data as secure as it can be kept.

 

[Ishmael]

Perhaps requiring a sequence of fingerprints in order to unlock the phone.

Anything that requires 'knowledge' rather than just a biometric avoids this ruling and keeps the data as secure as it can be kept.

You may be right but I can see that one back in court.

Ishmael

 

[Sean]

Perhaps requiring a sequence of fingerprints in order to unlock the phone.

Anything that requires 'knowledge' rather than just a biometric avoids this ruling and keeps the data as secure as it can be kept.

In the UK it's an offence not to disclose the password to a seized computer. I assume it also applies to phones but I can't recall it ever being tested in court.

 

[about_average]

Here comes the next app:

Index finger = unlock, middle finger = memory wipe.

Knowing which finger to use on the phone, is protected knowledge.

There are already apps that wipe your phone after a set number of bad passwords. Wouldn't be hard to extend it to fingerprint readers.
Windows bitlocker locks your HD after 10 bad passwords.