According to Forbes and its, allegedly close to the FBI, sources, American cops are repeatedly using fingerprints of dead iPhone owners to unlock their phones. It is said that the police often does it in order to enter an OD victi’s phone, which supposedly often leads to their dealer. Marina Medvin, owner of Medvin Law, said that such action is completely in line of the US law; person’s dead body has no ”privacy interest” and therefore not even a warrant is neccessary in order to access the deceased person’s phone. The only time when a police may need a warrant in such case is when the phone in question is share-owned.

Morally ambiguous? Yeah. Legal? Seems that way. Personally I do not care – what happens to my phone and my fingers after I die is, and I am happy to say so, not my concern. What do you think?