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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

UK

Edit, source: https://www.saunders.co.uk/news/prosecuted-for-your-password/

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Can’t I just say I forgot my pin? They can’t prove I don’t have a shit memory.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That only works if you're rich

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Classic quality Land

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, can't be, they said it was a European one and the UK voted to no longer be part of Europe. /s

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Incidentally, the European court for human rights said that that law violated the ECHR convention.

The UK said "yeah, so what?", which since they've left the EC it's legally right, but it's not a great outlook when you're told your laws violate human rights.