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Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)

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Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules::Phone-unlocking case law is "total mess," may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

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[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Doing it before you're under custody isn't a crime, and they also can't prevent you from deleting non-evidence but otherwise private data which you don't want to see misused (proving that is a whole other issue, though)

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