Reno89519 wrote: “I cannot believe the courts have not clarified this. A court can’t force me to give up a password yet they can force my finger to unlock a device?! Incredible.”
The court can also force you to provide your fingerprints in an attempt to match your prints to those on a murder weapon. Same thing.
In the case of the phone, they do not know what is on it, and they want the fingerprint for a fishing expedition into the data.
-PJ