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Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police | Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court (www.techspot.com)

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Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police | Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court::undefined

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[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

But if you don't open the safe, they can destroy it to retrieve the contents. They could destroy your phone too in the process.

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

...Exactly. The laws in the USA don't really reflect modern digital technology that well. Many of our legislators don't understand the tech and the government is so divided that getting anything to pass seems impossible.

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