[USA] Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone

The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.

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This is why you ALWAYS use a pw/pin.
- While it doesn't contradict what you're saying, apparently ”the provisions of his parole required him to surrender any electronic devices and passcodes." Wtf
  
  I'll keep telling them it is my 4th amendment right to get a warrant.

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