I for one, think we should not normalize a gestapo state and should absolutely push back on all forms of intrusion. Police have been caught planting drugs on suspects and it's really foolish to think they cannot plant digital evidence too.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Look, we live in a society where drywall dust can get you jailed for 90 days because the cops think it's drugs.
Or - hear me out here - we could protect our reasonable expectation of privacy and not bend over.
If no one is testing the rights we're supposed to have, then it's unclear that we actually have them. Auditing should seem eminently sensible to all the engineers here.
It's generally advised to not talk to the police because anything can potentially be incriminating. Given that, your advice effectively becomes "don't have/use a phone in the first place," and I don't fault someone who doesn't want to settle for that.
True, but I accept the possibility that what is legal today may not be legal tomorrow and ignorance of the law is no excuse as they would say. I like having options.