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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

UK

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That only works if you're rich

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Classic quality Land

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months 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.