You are really stretching, considering this decision was made in New Jersey with judges likely picked by Democrats.
Kamala Harris is FAR harsher on criminals and abusing civil liberties than Trump could ever dream of being.
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Suspects Can Be Forced to Provide Smartphone Passcodes, Rules New Jersey Supreme Court
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You are really stretching, considering this decision was made in New Jersey with judges likely picked by Democrats.
Kamala Harris is FAR harsher on criminals and abusing civil liberties than Trump could ever dream of being.
THIS is exactly what the defendant SHOULD have argued. But they claimed a 5th Amendment violation and your point is a FIRST Amendment issue. You can't be forced to provide a document or speech as that would be compelled speech and THAT would be the violation.
Human nature: disregard and dodge issues until it is way too late and damage is irreversible.
Up until the system is damaged beyond repair I don‘t see any hope of change happening.
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Slowly convert a free country into another China. That’s how they enforce it.
What data can possibly reside on your phone to make it worth more than $500 (or whatever a used smartphone could be worth)?
All "data" created on the phone is automatically uploaded to one cloud or the other so it should not be that.
If you're thinking banking details, I really hope that it's not in the clear if someone gets into your phone. All my banking details are secured by external "BankID" with 10-digit passcode, my phone alone gives no access to any valuables (banking, stocks, nothing).
Identity theft? There's nothing on my phone that can't easily be accessed directly via online databases, nobody would go through the trouble of trying to steal my phone to get that data.
And now, if they can throw you in jail for contempt of court for refusing to unlock a phone, they can claim any phone is yours and your failure to unlock it is pretext to jail you indefinitely without even having to charge you with a crime.
All Apple needs to do is have a passphrase that automatically initiates a factory restore. Use that and watch the TLA's squirm.
A sort of 'dead mans handle'.
Besides... don't all the US Law Enforcment Businesses have access to Cellbrite kit by now? Using that negates the need for a user to do anything.
So they’re gonna start torturing people now?
And what if someone experienced head trauma and honestly can’t remember?
And what if someone experienced head trauma and honestly can’t remember?
I thought in America, you had the right to...remain silent?!
Anyone, 99.99999999% of people have nothing to hide from gov. its not like they are planning to nuke the white house. Most people are looking for privacy from the masses and keep their personal life... personal. Unless you have nudes, I bet there is nothing in your digital device that you mind the gov. looking at.
Anyone, 99.99999999% of people have nothing to hide from gov. its not like they are planning to nuke the white house. Most people are looking for privacy from the masses and keep their personal life... personal. Unless you have nudes, I bet there is nothing in your digital device that you mind the gov. looking at.
I definitely see your point but they’d have a hard time proving someone didn’t get genuinely confused under pressure and accidentally gave the “wipe” passcode. I’d say that’s on par with your suggestion of “forgetting” your passcode in the first place. If you can’t be charged for forgetting your passcode, then you can’t be charged with accidentally giving the wrong one which leads to destruction of data.
Well, you have to know that's not true... unless you are considering all trumps buddies he has pardoned or just had Barr set free. In that case, he has been easier on criminals.
You need a keyserver somewhere on the net. (accessed through TOR.) You give them the revocation code, problem solved.
If you have to tell someone the password then it violate free speech. So bio-unlock is okay but sayings the password is not.
If you do not unlock your door then they kick it in. If you don't unlock your phone then they hope the hackers can unlock it.
The guest account would be great place to store 30 days worth of spam from the Trump 2020 campaign.
Funny thing is, if this corrupt former sheriff were still on the job, he would be arguing that suspects should be required to reveal their passwords. So he got what he deserved. Are FBI agents and congress people paying attention?
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You can't pick and choose the ones you like or dislike. Well you can but it doesn't end well. People have traded so much of their freedom for "security" but in reality got nothing. I've lived in communist countries and the problem is most people in the USA wouldn't recognize it. It's not this terrible thing where you are beaten every day and only eat bread. You live your life just like you do in the good ole US of A. The government is just a bit different and you don't have certain freedoms.
You don't get to decide what is relevant or not, what is incriminating or not. And of course, there is no such thing as police misconduct.
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The BEST line from that movie is found only in the book about the movie actually.
Dr. McCoy and the others are escaping Spacedock aboard the damaged Enterprise and they are watching the Excelsior power up to pursue them and Dr. McCoy says - "MY GOD! They're gaining on us just sitting there!"Lol