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Judge orders woman to open her iPhone with her fingerprint to allow investigators to examine contents. No constitutional protection of a person’s physical characteristics, law expert says.

A federal magistrate in Los Angeles ordered the girlfriend of an alleged gang member to open her phone using her fingerprint so prosecutors could look at the data on it for a case they were working on, according to a news report published last week. After Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan pleaded no contest to identity theft, a judge issued a warrant to force her to press her finger to her iPhone to open it.

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