Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
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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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I mean, whether you say it's legal or not, I wouldn't give out my pass code to a police officer. You can get fucked on that one.
In France it's illegal not to allow them to unlock your phone once they take you to the station. That's why most of the time we clean our phones or use burners during civil desobedience actions.
Won't they just keep you locked up perpetually for refusing then?
They might also just shoot you.
Yeah, and I'll appeal the case all the way up to the Supreme Court. I have a constitutional right to not say a goddamn thing. The founding fathers knew what passwords and cyphers were. If they wanted to allow the state to compel you to give them access to information that they could use against you in court, they would have written that into the fifth amendment.
Dunno, bit that's a risk I'm willing to take to maintain my 4th ammendment right.