What do I do if the police seize my phone?

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00:01 What happens when the police seize your phone?
00:03 It's a good question. Now, there are laws that protect your right to privacy in the state of Texas.
00:08 It's not as though a police officer can just go ahead and start typing in and looking at your information.
00:14 They need, most of the time, a warrant unless you give them permission. Don't do that.
00:18 It doesn't matter how innocent you are, they don't have the right to do that without proper cause.
00:23 Now, if they do have your phone, one bit of warning.
00:26 it's always best to try to keep it to where your phone can only be open via a
00:31 code and not with your face and not with your fingerprint. Why?
00:34 Because police are actually able to go ahead and do that or use your thumb
00:38 if need be. Whereas under your Fifth Amendment right,
00:41 you don't have to give them the code to open your phone. So,
00:45 what I would suggest in those circumstances is make it to where that is the
00:48 situation on your phone.
00:50 Now if they do have your code or they are able to access your phone
00:54 and they decide that they want to go ahead and get a warrant,
00:56 they can perform what's called an extraction.
00:58 And with that extraction, what they can do is,
01:00 they can literally tear into your phone,
01:02 and they can go ahead and get all of the information
01:05 that's off of it, and essentially try to use that
01:08 against you at a later time.
01:10 These are all incredibly invasive things
01:13 that the police and law enforcement can do.
01:15 Don't give them that opportunity, okay?
01:18 This is your privacy, protect it.