Forcing a person to use his fingerprint to unlock a cellphone doesn’t violate his constitutional right against self-incrimination, a federal court ruled.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho granted the U.S. government’s bid for a search warrant to compel a child pornography suspect to unlock his phone for a forensic search.
The July 26 decision highlights a split among district courts over whether forcing individuals to use biometric identifiers to unlock their digital devices runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution. No federal circuit court has weighed in on the issue, U.S. District Judge David C. Nye said. ...