In the US, these are three distinctly different things:<p>1. A person&#x27;s &quot;papers,&quot; memories and life details typically lives as data on their personal smartphones and other devices.  Currently, a phone&#x2F;laptop seems to be treated as pocket lint and other personal property, so a warrant is typically not needed to access contents, i.e., airport enhanced security screening, traffic stop, etc.<p>2. Important papers may reside in a home in a safe or filing cabinet.  A warrant or probable cause is needed to search a home.<p>3. A search warrant is not needed to search a vehicle, only probable cause. All kinds of road vehicles including van conversions and RVs are considered vehicles, not homes, even for the folks whom dwell in them, and so there is currently little protection.<p>The fourth amendment needs an amendment to explicitly include one&#x27;s personal electronic devices, hosted servers and cloud data in order to be congruent with the spirit of the law, because LEAs clearly do not respect sensible boundaries.<p>Furthermore, the Apple refusal is mostly a protest stance but moot considering the offensive LE tools industry jumps with glee at every opportunity to provide solutions... if the 10x-wipe retries counter is unencrypted, it will be broken by third-parties. (I hope this is not the case, and that it is an encrypted token of some sort)