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Not in the USA, but my password is my unique key that in cryptic my data, so therefore an FBI or any other agency is not allowed to pass it even if they could, no? As I’m the person who rode this password and therefore am the copyright holder of that password.
You might be thinking of the password vs fingerprint phone unlock. Courts decided that while your fingerprint could be compelled, you couldn't be compelled to reveal your password as that was private knowledge. That isn't due to copyright though, it's a 5th Amendment issue here in the US (The Fifth Amendment grants anyone in the U.S. the right to remain silent, which includes the right to not turn over information that could incriminate them in a crime. These days, those protections extend to the passcodes that only a device owner knows).
We've written plenty of legal justification around it, but ultimately it just comes down to the fact that police CAN physically place your finger into your phone, but cannot extract a password from your brain that you don't want to give up.
If we had the ability to read minds, there'd be legal justification to grab your password within a year.
You can always put your phone into lockdown mode so that the password is required to unlock the phone, not just your fingerprint.
Face and fingerprint unlock is too convenient for me to not have it at all.
That requires me to do it potentially under duress, with little to no time, etc. During a crisis it can't be assumed that the first thing I'll do is lockdown my phone. Anything that requires an anticipatory step is inherently risky.