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Are there any legal experts that want to weigh in on this.

Can the police in New Zealand force unlock your device with your biometrics?

How does this work with NZ law?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (12 children)

IANAL but this seems to be pretty common all across the world. The usual recommendation is to put your phone in "lockdown" mode if there's any suspicion you may get arrested. This prevents the phone from being unlocked with biometrics and require pin.

You can do this either by restarting or turning off your phone, or a button combination (power + volume up on my android) and selecting lockdown.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holding power + volume down in an iphone until the power off menu comes up disables faceid until you log in with your pin as well

[–] Twofacetony 6 points 9 months ago

Also for iPhone: If you press just the side button/lock button five times in quick succession, it will also go into lockdown mode and can only be unlocked with a pin. A little easier to covertly do as it’s just a button mash before you get nabbed.

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