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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone

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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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The laws surrounding 5th Amendment protections and biometric passwords are still undecided, so just turn it off.
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    Thank you for defending me. ❤️ They were correct though. Apparently I had the setting disabled, but I don’t remember doing so. Must have been years ago on another phone? And then carried over when settings migrated? I don’t know when this feature was introduced. But yeah. It’s a thing.

    But obviously not universal if you don’t have it. Which Android version are you on?

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      Which Android version are you on?

      10 qkq1.190910.002

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        Ah, that’s probably why, eh? Android 10 is quite old, right?

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          might be. might also be miui thing, i don’t know.

          the fact remains that (android does x) does not equal to (some subset of android does x)

          edit: seems the function was added in adroid 12 - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/uk-police-blame-android-for-record-number-of-false-emergency-calls/

          which means that as of right now it is available to 60% of android users - https://gs.statcounter.com/android-version-market-share/mobile/worldwide/

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            Yeah 60% is far from every device lol. But it’s still a good warning I guess. 😅

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