Comment by sramder@lemmy.world on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone

The article pretty plainly says the guy was coerced into entering his password. So the headline feels a bit manipulative.

The headline is click-bait. I honestly don’t know why people still read this crap.

So he was “only” coerced, ie likely verbally abused and lied to (which cops are allowed to do) about the consequences of refusing to unlock, instead of being physically forced. Such freedom.

What’s that got to do with using a thumb to unlock the phone?

“The general consensus has been that there is more Fifth Amendment protection for passwords than there is for biometrics,” Andrew Crocker, the Surveillance Litigation Director at the EFF, told Gizmodo in a phone interview. “The 5th Amendment is centered on whether you have to use the contents of your mind when you’re being asked to do something by the police and turning over your password telling them your password is pretty obviously revealing what’s in your mind.”

Sure, but what does your original comment have to do with the thumbprint?

The cops can coerce or force you to use biometrics to unlock your phone, but they can’t coerce you into giving up your passcode without a warrant.

It’s Gizmodo. Its all manipulative bullshit.

Lemmy quality descended quite quickly. What’s the more intelligent tech community alternative besides hacker news?

It seems everything descends into this samey mess of america bad, eat the rich which I don’t dispute with but I am here for tech and not politics honestly. Time and place for everything.

The amount of low effort comments that seem to only be about points/validation which aren’t even visible for some is tiring.

It used to be that you would look into comments for useful information about the posted article. Now you can skip the comments altogether and the posted links quality also became questionable.

I miss times where you could find links to some niche but full of creativity/usefulness websites in the comments or posts. Those juicy gems of the web. Or learn some fact that you had no idea about.

I want to learn something new being here. Not make my brain feel good with the reward of validation.

Probably because America bad, eat the rich.

and this is why lemmy is a limp-wristed do-nothing. too many people here want to stick their head in the sand. but by all means, pls share some more star trek memes.

I mean I have curated my ‘All’ only to non world news and non memes comms and I was left with literally nothing except this community. There is literally nothing here :/

I will still keep using it whenever I can though just out of principle and to curb some of my Reddit addictions.

I am sorry to say nowadays 95% of content appears to be meaningless. Not contributing anything, not creative, not even funny lots of the times. I won’t sugar coat this

but tech news ad nauseum is ‘meaningful’. lol okay.

See I have this weird feeling that we are too different to even connect somehow. You didn’t even read my comment. Any benefit of doubt of mine is pointless when you just throw some out of place, bland one liner and don’t even want to discuss anything. It’s like talking to a wall

Take a deep breath and tell us how you really feel ;-)

I got here a bit late and it seemed like there was some decent discussion going on. Practical advice on how to lock various phones.

Some high quality pasta about how to survive the coming civil war ;-) Honestly good advice for anyone considering civil unrest there.

It’s small, but what’s really missing here? Someone dragging up the constitution? Being forced to incriminate yourself is wrong and any evidence gleaned should be inadmissible. Cops shouldn’t manipulate people into giving up their rights… but that’s the country we live in.

Reddit was a wash in low effort feel good upvote nonsense too. It just got buried faster.

To each his own but until I have time to post a bunch of high quality content, I’m not going to complain so bitterly.

I am just annoyed that those sites became so mainstream that’s all. It always gets shitty then but if it is really good it is unavoidable.

I guess the key is to make it bad enough so normal fans won’t touch it but good enough so that some of us enjoyers will enjoy it

I think they were victims of their own success weren’t they? Gawker was already kind of a tech-tabloid, happy to report rumors (which were often true or at least truth adjacent).

That kinda made them popular with both hardboiled techies who wanted to know when my shit was going to come rolling down, and regular folks who just wanted some good gossip… maybe wanted to touch our feet or whatever ;-)

With that success and the capital investment it garnered Gawker bought up all the good tech news sites.

Unable to produce meaningful content for that many sites on the limited budget their investors demanded Gawker invented the listical. And humanity wept —and kept clicking for some damn reason 🤨

Many years passed and the listical was clearly dying, so Gawker sought out a real zinger to boost their profile… I’m a bit hazy on the details, but it sounds like Peter Teal fucked them up the ass with Hulk Hogan‘s penis.

At least that’s how I remember it ;-)

What’s the more intelligent tech community alternative besides hacker news?

https://lobste.rs/

But it’s invite-only.

Ya know… I hadn’t see anything by them in so long I forgot.

It’s just as shitty as ever

However, the panel said the evidence from his phone was lawfully acquired “because it required no cognitive exertion, placing it in the same category as a blood draw or a fingerprint taken at booking…"

If the precedent is that unlocking the phone is the same category as fingerprint taking, well, what happens if you refuse to be “coerced” into having your prints taken? Even if the legal precedent isn’t fully understood, it looks like the reasoning here isn’t based on whether there was physical force applied, but whether the search required the contents of the person’s mind.

I do t know about fingerprints but I thought a blood draw required cooperation or court order

In many (if not most) US jurisdictions, operating a vehicle under a driver’s license specifically implies consent to a blood draw when under suspicion of impaired driving.

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