ImaginaryEffort4409 t1_jaqk4rr wrote on March 3, 2023 at 9:39 AM

Meanwhile it's 2023 and my brand new $600 phone can't even reliably recognize my fingerprint lol

Plzbanmebrony t1_jaqx8ha wrote on March 3, 2023 at 12:26 PM

Turn that feature off. Cops can make you unlock it but they can't make you give them a password.

it_administrator01 t1_jar5a8c wrote on March 3, 2023 at 1:39 PM

or just leave it on because not everyone has things to hide from police

Plzbanmebrony t1_jaraqna wrote on March 3, 2023 at 2:24 PM

They will find something. Pleading guilty is often far cheaper than a trial. They are counting on that.

it_administrator01 t1_jarbmao wrote on March 3, 2023 at 2:31 PM

And I'm counting on just using biometric security rather than living out of fear that police are going to randomly pull me aside and insist on looking through my phone

Plzbanmebrony t1_jarcdru wrote on March 3, 2023 at 2:37 PM

Wait where do you live? Which nation.

it_administrator01 t1_jarebvw wrote on March 3, 2023 at 2:52 PM

My time is divided up between the UK and the US

My point is that I don't just walk around as an average citizen in fear of law enforcement randomly targeting me and my phone - frankly that's a strange way of living and an even stranger justification of removing one of the biggest QoL improvements that smartphones have had in the past 15 years.

If I was a drug dealer or terrorist, sure - passcode only, but living out of fear that police are randomly going to target me out of the blue, and then scour the 55000 photos/1m+ messages on my phone until they find something incriminating is a comical level of paranoia and epitomises the attitude of the average redditor with limited real world experience. There are faster ways for police to fill their quotas.