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The legal situation is more complex and nuanced than the headline implies, so the article is worth reading. This adds another ruling to the confusing case history regarding forced biometric unlocking.

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[–] Glass0448@lemmy.today -1 points 8 months ago

Idk… you being forced to use your body against your will to reveal secret and private things sounds pretty awful to me

Hopefully it gets overturned and your compulsion to stick your finger on the devices requires a warrant.

I'm in partial agreement with @gomp@lemmy.ml, they should be allowed to take your fingerprint and then apply that fingerprint to a device. Or get a warrant to make you stick you finger on the device. Recording your fingerprint is just collecting data to investigate a crime, it generates a record. Sticking your finger on a device is making you participate in the investigation, and generates no investigative record other than "device did/didn't unlock".