In the world of forensic mobile phone, people in have names for all the personal information that is consciously or unconsciously stored in your mobile phone. They call it a "digital fingerprint".
With the right equipment and direct access to your mobile phone, anyone can tap the private details of your life: text, photos, tweets, facebook, your appointments, place your favorite sport, 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 explore, their pictures. People are addicted to their mobile phones, so this is the latest and most valuable information available about the person."
Although wireless companies and others have long been able to track the phone from remote locations, it remains unclear other information that can be accessed remotely. However, forensic investigators have long known that the biographical data storage can be collected when they have direct access to handheld devices. Even before the discovery of records tracking the location shown by the researchers this week have been found on the iPhone, investigators have collected 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 land in West Virginia.
Vance and laboratory helped retrieve data from the iPhone including the call records, map search results from 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 ignored requests for comment will continuously tracking records, even when members of Congress began to ask the question why Apple to track the users phone and what it does to such information. Besides the privacy advocates warn that retrieve data from hp someone without permission is a step down again on the road that has been problematic.
"It's not a cell phone - this is the phone tapping," said John M. Simpson, director of Consumer 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."
Privacy advocates say that the disclosure 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 records, have opened that Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phones regularly send the location data to the two companies.
"I see the slippery slope," said Sharon Goott Nissim, representative consumer privacy in the Electronic 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 first."
From experience over the years, investigators have now have a better idea than the owner of the phone on what data they can legally get from the telephone 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 forensic investigators, it is a good thing. You do not want to convey the bad guy that you can get the information from the phone.
"We know most of the data will be contained in mobile equipment," he said.
The forensic investigators have long been able to retrieve a list of connections, recording calls and text 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 available for the equipment.
Schroader, whose firm offers a forensic data retrieval tool worth $ 199 called iRecovery, said although investigators have been able to explore the innards of the phone over the years, the growth of smartphones capacity means a major change in the amount of personal data is now readily available.
"We have made these tools that support the 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."
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