Cops can force suspect to unlock #phone with #thumbprint, US #court rules

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/cops-can-force-suspect-to-unlock-phone-with-thumbprint-us-court-rules/

#usa #justice #privacy #security #smartphone #mobile #technology #news #police #surveillance

Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a "blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."

^{Ars Technica}

Das richtige Alter für das erste #Smartphone? Meistens sind Kids mit 11 oder 12 Jahren soweit, mit den digitalen Möglichkeiten verantwortungsvoll umzugehen.

Hier gibt's noch mehr Tipps für den digitalen Familienalltag 👉 https://www.bsi.bund.de/dok/1101378
#DeutschlandDigitalSicherBSI

End the Phone-Based #Childhood Now

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental pathways across the board. Friendship, dating, sexuality, exercise, sleep, academics, politics, family dynamics, identity—all were affected. Life changed rapidly for younger #children, too, as they began to get access to their #parents’ smartphones and, later, got their own iPads, laptops, and even smartphones during elementary #school.

#technology #news #change #humanity #future #society #smartphone #problem

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

^{Jonathan Haidt (The Atlantic)}

It’s Causing Them to Drop Out of Life’: How Phones Warped Gen Z:

It’s hard to believe sometimes that smartphones and social media haven’t been around forever; but for one generation, they have. Gen Z doesn’t know a time when they weren’t ubiquitous. This cohort also happens to be the generation with the worst mental health in America. Is that a coincidence?

#SocialMedia #Gaming #SmartPhone

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/24/the-anxious-generation-qa-00147880