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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)
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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 201 points 6 months ago (69 children)

Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint.

You can turn that and Face ID off on iOS by mashing the power button 5 times- it locks everything down.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago (4 children)

In a getting pulled over situation, this works. But do it before you go protest anything. Or better yet, leave your phone at home. You don’t want to be reaching for something while a cop is pointing a gun at you and saying “Hands up!”

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

☞ EFF / Surveillance Self-Defense / Attending a Protest

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Didn’t know EFF had this, neat

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