Court rules cops can demand fingerprints, not passcodes, to unlock smartphones

Macworld
Oct 31, 2014, 12:14 pm441 pts
If police suspect that you’ve committed a crime, the odds are pretty good that they’ll want to search your smartphone for evidence. Whether they can actually search your phone depends on the security method you’ve picked—if any—to protect the device. Use Touch ID? Turn over those fingerprints. Have a passcode?…

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