Can Law Enforcement Force You To Use Your Finger To Unlock Your Phone? [telecom]

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Article by James Fullmer

Can a fingerprint alone provide "testimony" about a person? Earlier this month, a federal court in California said yes. But the court was not engaging in a highly-localized form of palm-reading; rather, the question arose in the ever-evolving field of how to balance law enforcement needs and individual citizens' privacy interests as new technologies emerge.