FBI granted federal court warrant forcing suspect to unlock iPhone using Touch ID<div class="feat-image">
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<p>For the first time in a federal case, a suspect has been ordered to use her fingerprint to unlock her iPhone using Touch ID. The <a href="
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-iphones-fingerprints-20160430-story.html" target="_blank">
LA Times[/url] reports that a federal judge signed a warrant allowing the FBI to compel a suspect in an identity theft case to to unlock the phone just 45 minutes after her arrest.</p>
<p>Authorities obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged Armenian gang member to press her finger against an iPhone that had been seized from a Glendale home [
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">In the Glendale case, the FBI wanted the fingerprint of Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan, a 29-year-old woman from L.A. with a string of criminal convictions who pleaded no contest to a felony count of identity theft.</span></p>
<p>The warrant is consistent with <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/31/touch-id-police/" target="_blank">a 2014 case[/url] where a Virginia District Court ruled that while passcodes are protected by the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination, fingerprints are not. Legal experts, however, have differing views …</p>
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http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/02/federal-court-touch-id-fingerprint/#more-429513" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
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