Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone
reason.com
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
  • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I’ve never understood people who are happy to give their biometrics to fucking PayPal and every other random company. Just use a password for everything.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      You don’t “give” your *biometrics to any of them. Your biometric data is used to encrypt and store each services password hash or auth token on your device.

      *At least when it comes to login authentication. Nothing stopping them from acquiring your biometric data from a hundred data brokers.