Never mind the Feds. American police forces routinely "circumvent most security features" in smartphones to extract mountains of personal information, according to a report that details the massive, ubiquitous cracking of devices by cops.
Two years of public records requests by Upturn, a Washington DC non-profit, has revealed that every one of the United States’ largest 50 police departments, as well as half of the largest sheriff’s offices and two-thirds of the largest prosecuting attorney’s offices, regularly use specialist hardware and software to access the contents of suspects' handhelds. There isn't a state in the Union that hasn't got some advanced phone-cracking capabilities.
The report concludes that, far from modern phones being a bastion of privacy and security, there are in fact routinely rifled through for trivial crimes without a warrant in sight. In one ..
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