{"id":13977,"date":"2014-10-31T13:19:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13977"},"modified":"2014-10-31T13:19:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T18:19:23","slug":"the-hill-court-police-can-use-your-fingerprint-to-search-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13977","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: Court: Police can use your fingerprint to search your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: Court: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/222420-court-police-can-use-your-fingerprint-to-search-your-phone\">Police can use your fingerprint to search your phone<\/a> by Cory Bennett:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The police can get your fingerprint, but not your password, to unlock your smartphone, a Virginia judge ruled this week.<\/p>\n<p>A password is constitutionally protected individual knowledge, Virginia Beach Circuit Court Judge Steven Frucci ruled. But a fingerprint is similar to giving a DNA or handwriting sample, which the law allows, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: Court: Police can use your fingerprint to search your phone by Cory Bennett: The police can get your fingerprint, but not your password, to unlock your smartphone, a Virginia judge ruled this week. A password is constitutionally protected &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13977\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13978,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions\/13978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}