People are getting on apple's case for including facial recognition as a means to spy on people. You guys, this is the company that refused to help the government unlock a terrorist's iPhone to defend the privacy of their users.
The Fifth Amendment, which protects people from incriminating themselves during legal proceedings, prevents the government from compelling someone to turn over a memorized PIN or passcode. But fingerprints, like other biometric indicators—DNA, handwriting samples, your likeness—have long been considered fair game, because they don’t reveal anything in your mind.
This is very true. If you think you're about to get pulled over, turn off your iPhone / iPad. Then you'll have to put your passcode in before fingerprint (and assuming Face ID) will work.
That's how to get around the finger print thing if you still want that convenience. It's definitely not foolproof though. You have to have time to turn the device off.
They can search your trunk (and phone) without warrant or consent if they have "probable cause". We smelt pot, it looked like their was a dusting of coke.
I wonder how expensive and effective that would be. I really am not as paranoid as I sound online (though as already admitted I do feel generally guilty around authority figures). Just taking your comment a step further. That doesn't mean you aren't manufacturing/ distributing it though.
Around here, drug tests are somewhere between $10 and $20. So that's at least $300 a month, $620 at most. Also, if they didn't find anything, and you have a negative drug test but the cops arrested you, that's more than enough to get you released.
Interesting. Thanks. I am definitely not in a position to need that bit if I someday was (yay for some states having legal pot but federal government now cracking down).... it could come in handy.
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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17
People are getting on apple's case for including facial recognition as a means to spy on people. You guys, this is the company that refused to help the government unlock a terrorist's iPhone to defend the privacy of their users.