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Hannah Frey

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The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

You do.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

They get into your phone with that passcode and they find text messages where you admit to this crime.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

This statement, I read it on the Internet, was that they cannot actually charge you or bring that as evidence in court.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

However, if they found the texts because they just pointed your phone at your face and it unlocked, that's allowed.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

As it turns out, that is correct.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

Kind of.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

Here's something strange.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

Your DNA contains more ancient viral fragments than genes.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

The genes that build our cells make up only 2% of our DNA.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

And for years, that is what scientists focused on.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

They treated the rest, the ancient viruses and stuff, as junk.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

It's a reminder that progress rarely comes as a single breakthrough.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

It builds gradually.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

Cancer Research UK plays a central role in that progress, supporting decades of research into over 200 types of cancer, work that's helped double survival in the UK over the past 50 years.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

Well, it's really close.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

I looked into it.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

And as it turns out, we don't really know yet.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

Different courts in the United States have ruled differently on this.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

The Oregon Supreme Court tried a case where this woman, last name Pittman, had been pulled over and police found a whole lot of meth in her car.

The Rest Is Science
The Creepy Reason Police Want Your Face

And they also found a whole lot of little baggies.