Your Phone Tells About You
In the world of forensic hp, people inside have a name for all the personal information that consciously or unconsciously stored in your mobile phone. They call it "digital fingerprints".
With the right equipment as well as direct access to your phone, anyone can tap the private details of your life: sms, photos, tweets, facebook, your appointments, your favorite sports venue, or even what you ate last night.
"You can know everything about a person by cell phone," said Amber Schroader, owner of Paraben of Pleasant Grove, Utah, which makes forensic software for investigators and the general public. "You can see their YouTube videos, the websites they've browsed, their pictures. People are addicted to their mobile phones, so this is the latest and most valuable information available about someone."
Although wireless companies and others have long been able to track the location hp from a distance, it remains unclear other information that can be accessed remotely. But the forensic investigators have long known that the storage of biographical data can be collected when they have direct access to handheld devices. Even before the discovery of the archive tracking the location shown by researchers this week have been found on the iPhone, investigators had been collecting data from the Apple smartphone.
"We analyzed the iPhone since its launch," said Christopher Vance, a digital forensics specialist at Marshall University's Forensics Science Center, which works with law enforcement agencies, both private and country in West Virginia.
Vance and laboratory helped retrieve data from the iPhone include call records, map search results from the Google Maps app, graphics stored in the browser cache, even a record of what has been typed into the iPhone's virtual key board.
"There are a lot of important information on the iPhone," he said.
Not everyone was pleased at how easy it makes hp reveal his secret. Apple has continuously ignored requests to comment will be archived tracking, even when members of Congress began asking the question why Apple users to track the phone and what it does to the information. Besides the privacy advocates warn that retrieves data from a person without his permission hp is one more step down the road which is already problematic.
"This is not a cell phone - this is the phone tapping," said John M. Simpson, direkturConsumer Watchdog's Privacy Project. "The consumer should have the right to control whether their data is collected and how it is used.
"People do not realize about the gold mine of data about their life that is in their phone," he added. "There should be a learning process so that people will begin to understand it."
The privacy advocates say that the unveiling of the iPhone tracking records law and underscores the need for new legislation to determine the type and amount of information that can dikumupulkan moving equipment. In addition to the iPhone tracking archive, has opened that Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phones regularly send the location data to the two companies.
"I see a slippery slope," said Sharon Goott Nissim, representative consumer privacy diElectronic Privacy Information Center, a consumer advocacy group. "When the data collection has been done, even harder to stop law enforcement officials to gain access to it. The way to stop this is to stop the collection in the first place."
From experience over the years, now investigators have had a better idea than the owner of the phone on what data they can legally get on the phone to consumers. Archive of the iPhone location tracking "has been flying under the radar for a while," said Sean Morrissey, CEO of Katana Forensics. "For the forensic investigators, it is a good thing. You do not want to convey the bad guys that you can get the information from the phone.
"We know most of the data will be contained in mobile equipment," he said.
Forensic investigators have long been able to take the list of connections, recording calls and short messages from mobile phones. But smartphones such as the iPhone has significantly increased the amount of data. The section deals with the growing consumer use of the equipment as it is and the more applications that are available for the equipment.
Schroader, whose firm was offering forensic data retrieval tool worth $ 199 called iRecovery, said although investigators have been able to explore the innards of the phone over the years, capacity growth in smartphones mean a big change in the amount of personal data is now readily available.
"We have made these tools that support iPhone, Windows Mobile and Android for years, but penyimpanannyalah that changes everything," he said. "Hp old school you have a few MB of storage. Now we are at GB level, and eventually will be in terabytes. Moreover, if we work closely with law enforcement, which translates into more evidence, which makes us all very happy."
