Hello, right now is: 19 April, 2011
SonicSpike writes "The Michigan State Police have a very high-tech mobile forensics unit which will be utilised to extract details from cell phones belonging to motorists stopped for small traffic violations. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan very last Wednesday demanded that state officers cease stonewalling flexibility of data requests for data around the system. A US Department of Justice test with the CelleBrite UFED utilized by Michigan police identified the system could grab all of the photographs and video clip from an iPhone within one-and-a-half minutes. The device operates with 3000 distinct phone models and can even defeat password protections. 'Complete extraction of active, hidden,
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