The law requires you to unlock it, but as far as I’m aware its legality has never faced a major challenge and there are some civil rights groups who are confident it won’t survive one.
Truth be told though most phones don’t have robust enough security to withstand even a short duration attack from the tools available to law enforcement.
Depends where you are, some jurisdictions within the US will order you to produce a password in some circumstances and hold you in contempt until you do and that decision has been upheld by higher courts, notably the third circuit.
Except that you can’t unlock an android phone with your fingerprint/face if you just turned it on. The first time you unlock it you have to use your pattern/pin.
The law requires you to unlock it, but as far as I’m aware its legality has never faced a major challenge and there are some civil rights groups who are confident it won’t survive one.
Truth be told though most phones don’t have robust enough security to withstand even a short duration attack from the tools available to law enforcement.
They can force biometric unlocks. That cannot force you to give them your password.
That is in a criminal investigation. They can just deny you entry if you dont unlock.
You also don’t have most constitutional protections until you’re past the security checkpoint.
Depends where you are, some jurisdictions within the US will order you to produce a password in some circumstances and hold you in contempt until you do and that decision has been upheld by higher courts, notably the third circuit.
There are exceptions to most things, yes.
None of it is relevant at the border though, they dont have to do anything other than deny entry.
Except that you can’t unlock an android phone with your fingerprint/face if you just turned it on. The first time you unlock it you have to use your pattern/pin.
Time to setup a guest account on the phone then
GrapheneOS with factory reset. Using boot verification.