Feds Cant Force You To Unlock Your Phone

(Forbes) A California judge has ruled that American cops cant force people to unlock a mobile phone with their face or finger. The ruling goes further to protect peoples private lives from government searches than any before and is being hailed as a potentially landmark decision. Previously U.S. judges had ruled that police were allowed to force unlock devices like Apples iPhone with biometrics such as fingerprints faces or irises. That was despite the fact feds werent permitted to force a suspect to divulge a passcode. But according to a ruling uncovered by Forbes all logins are equal. The order came from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in the denial of a search warrant for an unspecified property in Oakland. The warrant was filed as part of an investigation into a Facebook extortion crime in which a victim was asked to pay up or have an embarassing" video of them publicly released. The cops had some suspects in mind and wanted to raid their property. In doing so the feds also wanted to open up any phone on the premises via facial recognition a fingerprint or an iris.