UK Police Roll Out On-the-Spot Mobile Data Extraction System 145
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from the doing-it-faster dept.
from the doing-it-faster dept.
Qedward writes "The Metropolitan Police has rolled out a mobile device data extraction system to allow officers to extract data 'within minutes' from suspects' phones while they are in custody. 'Ostensibly, the system has been deployed to target phones that are suspected of having actually been used in criminal activity, although data privacy campaigners may focus on potentially wider use.'"
Michigan (Score:4, Informative)
Looks like the UK beat Michigan to the punch.
http://slashdot.org/story/11/04/19/2231240/michigan-police-could-search-cell-phones-during-traffic-stops [slashdot.org]
It's not "the UK". (Score:4, Informative)
The Metropolitan Police are in London. That's one city. It's the capital city, and it's a pretty big city, so there is a police force that deal with pretty much just that. They don't even deal with the outlying parts of the Greater London area.
If the police in Washington DC rolled this out, would you say "US Police"? No, because that would be stupid. It's one city, not the whole country.
Re:Yeah, because... (Score:5, Informative)
Bear in mind that the UK consists of four different countries and a bunch of principalities, and at least one country - Scotland - has entirely different laws and indeed an entirely different legal system to all the rest. About the only thing we share with the rest of the UK is our currency and our mains voltage.
Or just use Ice cream sandwhich (Score:4, Informative)
ICS has FDE built in, and it is very slick and simple to use.
Openmoko (Score:2, Informative)
Re:need a kill gesture (Score:2, Informative)
You can use the pass code erase feature on the iphone. Type ten wrong codes fast and all is gone.