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Today I learned that passwords and passcodes on your cell phone are protected by the 5th Amendment (here in the USA), but biometrics are not. Law enforcement, for example, can confiscate your phone and then hold it to your face and unlock it, and doing so doesn't violate the 5th Amendment.

Wild.
Your face is out in public; (ideally) your passwords aren’t publicly displayed.

I’m a lawyer; I don’t use biometrics. I also don’t have my phone tied into my car’s Bluetooth system- I realized years ago that while my side may not be audible outside the car, the person I’m talking to can be heard from a few feet away, even with the windows up.
 
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This is a small thing I learned a couple years back, not sure if it is universal. In NZ, the tags inside your t-shirts with the various washing instructions are always on the left, once I noticed, I haven't put a t-shirt on wrong since.
That seems the same as what I’ve seen here in the USA.
 

This is a small thing I learned a couple years back, not sure if it is universal. In NZ, the tags inside your t-shirts with the various washing instructions are always on the left, once I noticed, I haven't put a t-shirt on wrong since.
That's odd. All of the tags on my t-shirts are on the back of the neck, inside, making it trivial to tell which is the back. Even the "tagless" shirts have the information printer there. But hey, that's Canada.
 


That's odd. All of the tags on my t-shirts are on the back of the neck, inside, making it trivial to tell which is the back. Even the "tagless" shirts have the information printer there. But hey, that's Canada.
In NL, t-shirts have tag in collar showing the size and brand and some other information, and another one sewn into the seam on the left side with more detailed product information.
 

In NL, t-shirts have tag in collar showing the size and brand and some other information, and another one sewn into the seam on the left side with more detailed product information.
Our cheap shirts typically have one tag with the basics of size, composition, and perhaps pictographic washing instructions. The more expensive t-shirts might have they, plus a second label under the first with more detailed information.
 

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