Why your iPhone-unlocking fingerprint is susceptible to FBI search warrants<article>
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<p>Should you be able to plead the Fifth when a judge forces you to use your fingerprints to unlock an iPhone?</p><p>That’s the latest
ongoing debate in a Los Angeles courtroom after a judge compelled a woman in custody to use Touch ID to unlock an iPhone. Legal experts are arguing that this goes against the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination because the authorities would then have access to potentially-incriminating personal data stored on the device.</p><p>The debate started after authorities obtained a search warrant for Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan, the girlfriend of a suspected Armenian gang member, to use her fingerprints to unlock an iPhone seized from a home in Glendale, California. The iPhone in question was enabled with Touch ID sensor technology.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3064452/privacy/why-your-iphone-unlocking-fingerprint-is-susceptible-to-fbi-search-warrants.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Why your iPhone-unlocking fingerprint is susceptible to FBI search warrants