It’d be like that if they actually bothered getting a warrant for any of this shit, but if you refuse to unlock a phone for them using biometrics they can charge you with blocking an investigation and then force you to do it anyways, so no.
It also gets much worse than that. Law Enforcement routinely treats “Get A Warrant” as less of a necessary step to preserve our liberties and require them to actually prove this use of investigative resources isn’t being wasteful or unnecessarily abridging people’s rights, and more as an annoyance that can and should be gotten around by any means necessary, rights of the public be damned, if they’re saying no they must be guilty!
It’d be like that if they actually bothered getting a warrant for any of this shit, but if you refuse to unlock a phone for them using biometrics they can charge you with blocking an investigation and then force you to do it anyways, so no.
It also gets much worse than that. Law Enforcement routinely treats “Get A Warrant” as less of a necessary step to preserve our liberties and require them to actually prove this use of investigative resources isn’t being wasteful or unnecessarily abridging people’s rights, and more as an annoyance that can and should be gotten around by any means necessary, rights of the public be damned, if they’re saying no they must be guilty!