Missouri officers accused of pulling over women, searching phones for nude pictures
Never give the cops your phone.
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Man, we live in a world which probably has immediate and ready access to nude images of any particular sort one might desire -- and we're getting to the point that computers can synthesize stuff that doesn't even exist -- and you're committing crimes and risking your job to get a low-quality cell phone picture of a cell phone screen of an amateur nude photo?
EDIT: And randomly checking the first guy, he's apparently married with four kids:
https://notes.mshp.dps.mo.gov/si01/si01p001.nsf/035631d21d12b3ca8625729800536894/25cc708fab2ad89c8625871e0052e782?OpenDocument
Probably not going to do wonders for your marriage, either.
as always, its about power
It's a shame it's so rarely checked
It's not about the nude pictures, it's about having that kind of power over someone.
Never give cops your phone, yes. Also, don't use biometrics to lock your phone. Police can legally force you to unlock with your thumb print, they legally (and like, physically) cannot force you to reveal a passcode stored only in your brain.
Obligatory reminder that (for iPhone at least) hitting the right side button rapidly 5 times locks out biometrics and forces pin entry
For Android, a reboot forces a pin code.
And to get the reboot option on Pixels, long press Power and Volume Up. Infinitely more annoying than just long pressing the power button.
What? Do you mean to get the pop up on screen? That's still a simple long press on the power button. I just did it now on my Pixel.
Long power + Vol Up does a hard reboot directly without calling the power menu
Default after Pixel 5 is to bring up Google Assistant with a long press of the power button.
Then they must have changed their minds again, I haven't changed this setting so it's default has been long press for power button
But I did find the setting so you can change it and not worry about it anymore: Settings > System > Gestures > Press and Hold power button
Thank you! I looked it up before and the only thing I found was that the default setting had changed.
But it also takes like 10-15 seconds of holding it. Not something you can do when a cop holds out his hand for your phone.
For a hard reboot yea. It's faster to do the onscreen menu which pops up in like a second
Or you can root and restore such powers to Tasker
There's also 'lockdown mode' which forces a pin and hides most info from the lockscreen.
Long-press power, then select 'lockdown'. (you may have to enable this feature in settings)
A useful aspect of Lockdown mode (on top of it potentially being quick) is that you can still get into the camera without unlocking it (for me it's a double tap on the power). When you're locked down they can't navigate to your photos, but you might want to be able to record things.
This is the case on iOS as well but restarting takes longer and more explicit interactions than pressing a button five times
That dials 911 on Android. That was a fun feature to discover on my new phone. I'm sitting there, trying to turn up the volume for a podcast and it's not working. Pull my phone out of my pocket and see that it's on a countdown before it dials out! The count is down to 3! No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Cancel! Hang up! What the fuck!? Why is that a thing!?
That shit got disabled real quick.
alternatively hold power and one of the volume buttons for a few seconds
Thats handy AF. Thanks.
Just to be clear, they can't legally search your phone at all without either consent or a warrant. There is absolutely no reason you need to hand your phone to a cop during a traffic stop, no matter how it is secured.
Oh forcing physically works very well with a gun to your head, but yeah not legal ofc.
Also any phone that has been out of your vision in the hands of police, border agencies or TSA is electronic waste.
What about the pattern lock?
That’s just a passcode for practical purposes
Max penalty for cops that break the law, should be automatic.
And yet that cop would still have numerous supporters pouring out of the woodwork claiming that "the babies should have complied."
Also on iPhone, tap power 5 times will bring up the emergency call, BUT will disable biometric login and force the passcode.
Oooh Missouri cops in the national news, this is sure to be good news.