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A further violation of your human rights?

A Florida black man was shot dead in his car attempting to flee the police at a petrol station, he took off dragging  a policeman (according to police) and hence fired at.

Where the story took an unusual twist was that the police visited the mortuary and used the dead mans finger (fingerprints) on his mobile phone to tty and unlock the phones biometric security to get access to contacts.

His girlfriend says this was an abuse of human rights, but a judge there, has said it is legal. Interesting.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43865109

I think once dead you lose your rights. I dread to think what would happen if you didn't. :o


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Not sure about this one.  My first point of call would not be questioning the use of the dead man's finger but why they needed to access his phone in the first place.

Was it for identification purposes?

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Si Wooldridge says...
"Was it for identification purposes?"
I wonder if it was for identifying associates.


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Robee J Shepherd says...
"I wonder if it was for identifying associates."
That's different, and I would argue a fishing trip...which no law enforcement is allowed to do...


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Fishing trip?...does that mean wanting to know why he was trying to move off in the car, so wanted to check his phone contacts for any possible criminal content.

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"That's different, and I would argue a fishing trip...which no law enforcement is allowed to do..."
Yes I would argue that too, but you could argue when investigating someones death you wanted to know why they were where there and where they were going, and the phone might give you that.


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