• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    The question for smartphones has been tried in court IIRC. Basically, police can compel you to unlock your phone with biometrics, but cannot compel you to unlock it if it’s a password, and the difference is your fingerprint is something you have, whereas a password is something you know. Your fingerprint is subject to the fourth amendment and your password is subject to the fifth.

    So when it comes to video footage, the password is protected, so they’d need to break the encryption or the password, they couldn’t compel you to reveal it.