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color of law

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Using face recognition will be upheld. Your face and fingerprints are not “testimonial”. That is why, without a warrant, the police cannot force you to provide them a password.

Some phones will wipe clean any data on the phone if the attempt to unlock is unsuccessful after three attempts. OOPS, wrong fingerprint, wrong pass code.
 
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OC for ME

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It is not about the face...it is about the overly broad wording of the warrant...approved by a anti-individual liberty judge.

The warrant laid out what could be searched which included "Any and all computer software including programs to run operating systems, applications, utilities, compilers, interpreters and communications programs."

The search warrant also states that "Any and all files, documents, records, or correspondence, in any format or medium (including but not limited to, network, system, security, and user logs, databases, software registrations, data and meta data)…

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...pher-to-open-his-iphone-x-using-his-face.html
Then there is the never ending search for "justice."
While Michalski cooperated on the scene, the FBI was locked out of the device, because they didn’t have his pass code. They asked for and were granted a second search warrant, which grants them the authority to conduct a more thorough search of the device.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/30/17920798/fbi-child-pornography-iphone-x-suspect-face-id
When the feds, or local cops, have you in their sights, the full weight of our tax dollars will be brought to bear on the law abiding citizen.
 

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Cops are using our tax dollars to diminish our capability to hold cops accountable for they violating the laws.

They had a judge-issued warrant, but I agree it was way too vague. The whole point about the 4th's "particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized" is that there should never be any blanket warrants, that the state would have no right to invade one's privacy unless they knew -- specifically -- what they were looking for.

Using face recognition will be upheld. Your face and fingerprints are not “testimonial”. That is why, without a warrant, the police cannot force you to provide them a password.

Some phones will wipe clean any data on the phone if the attempt to unlock is unsuccessful after three attempts. OOPS, wrong fingerprint, wrong pass code.

Each person's fingerprints are different on each finger. Nearly every uses their dominant hand's index finger. One could simple encode with another finger, then swipe their index finger three times, and *poof*
 
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