London Police extracts smartphone data with new gizmo, privacy concerns arise
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The idea behind ACESO is to allow officers to respond quicker when matters require them to, like the case was with last year's riots in downtown London. It is assumed that BlackBerry smartphones and BBM, in particular, were used by the protesters, and even though RIM allowed authorities to access user data stored on its servers, police could not do much in the field in order to obtain potential evidence from rioters' handsets.
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ACESO can extract smartphone data in a matter of minutes |
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10 Comments
1. android_hitman posted on 22 May 2012, 03:25 0 10
if you are not a crook then you don't have to worry about this ...
4. anywherehome posted on 22 May 2012, 04:14 6 0
and if any government representative is not a crook than we don't have to worry about this....
but if there is? and be sure there are a lot of crooks who can abuse this ;)
so don't lie that we don't have to worry about this...
2. adi4u4882 posted on 22 May 2012, 03:31 1 0
That will surely affect privacy of an individual. If that ACESO is capable of receiving Contacts and Messages then how can we be sure that it can't grab our Pictures and Videos? But its hard to believe that an device can do all that with mobile os's like iOS and Android.
5. BuckeyeCadet86 posted on 22 May 2012, 06:49 0 0
It can get your pictures in videos, its in the article. Its not that hard to believe, the multitude of operating systems out there are really just Windows, BB, Android, BREW and iOS. For the most part it isn't that hard to access any of them older devices do it (Cellbrites) they just do it a little slower.
3. darktranquillity posted on 22 May 2012, 03:57 0 4
I dono why people gets so frantic and starts screaming about privacy when police starts monitoring phones/sms/calls/data... I don think that even police in pakistan will misuse or sell your personnel details they get to a third party(except in autocratic regimes). If you don have weight in your pocket, you don have to be worried while travelling right?:-|
9. jmoita2 posted on 22 May 2012, 15:23 0 0
The Pakistan police??? Do you have any worse examples???
6. dcgore posted on 22 May 2012, 07:11 3 0
At one point, government and its enforcing entities can have too much power. I think they should get a warrant to access personal info.
8. brkshr posted on 22 May 2012, 11:46 0 0
This is exactly like going through your house without a warrant!!! You may have pictures, texts, emails etc. that are personal, embarrassing or confidential. Cops are people too, and they can be/have been corrupted. I don't have anything to hide on my phone, but if you let this go, what's next? Maybe all calls/text/data gets routed through government agencies first... (not that it doesn't with the NSA already, but on a local level would be scary)
