Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
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Phone-unlocking case law is "total mess," may be ripe for Supreme Court review.
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Since this relates to laws, it should be noted that this is related to the US, and that other countries may treat the issue completely differently.
It's like this with seized devices in Germany, too. The result is they keep it until you give up the PW.
Fine, keep it.
Me 30min later: "Hi yes I lost my phone and I need to replace it, do you sell unlocked google pixels at this store?"
Yup, if you have the money to replace it that's fine but you'll still have lost most of the data on your phone.
Backups are important! I just wish I could remotely brick it.
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