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    Cell phones contain a wealth of personal digital information that can be accessed through forensic analysis beyond just call logs and contacts. Law enforcement sees cell phone data as increasingly important evidence for investigations, as nearly all crimes now have a digital component, while some are concerned about privacy issues. Experts are developing new forensic methods to retrieve deeper data from cell phones, prompting praise from crime fighters but also worries over civil liberties.

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    Cell phones contain a wealth of personal digital information that can be accessed through forensic analysis beyond just call logs and contacts. Law enforcement sees cell phone data as increasingly important evidence for investigations, as nearly all crimes now have a digital component, while some are concerned about privacy issues. Experts are developing new forensic methods to retrieve deeper data from cell phones, prompting praise from crime fighters but also worries over civil liberties.

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    “ Cell phones are ubiquitous...

    nearly all crimes have a digital


    component to them

    ”
    From crucial tracking evidence
    in the Scott Peterson murder
    trial to exculpatory call records
    in the Duke alleged rape case,
    cell phones have emerged as
    an important resource for both
    criminal investigators and
    defense lawyers. Now a small
    group of international forensic
    code breakers is working to go
    beyond the obvious and famil- In the meantime, all of us
    iar — the call logs and address — innocent citizen and crimi-
    books — and tap deeper into nals alike — continue to pump
    our phones, into a hidden gold ever more data into cell phones
    mine of personal information. and PDAs, those indispensable
    Their work is prompting ku- companions that have so much
    dos from crime busters while to say about us.
    raising concern among civil
    libertarians.

    “Cell phones are ubiquitous Most cell phone owners think


    in today’s world and nearly simply removing a phone’s
    all crimes have a digital com- SIM card removes personal
    ponent to them,” says Rick information, but the phone’s
    Mislan, an assistant professor internal memory, even commu-
    of computer and informa- nication exchanged between
    tion technology at Purdue the phone and its server, re-
    University. Mislan, a former main. Phone manuals detail
    U.S. Army electronic warfare how to perform multiple reset
    officer, is one of a handful of commands to erase personal
    experts working on forensic information and some online
    methods to access the inner recycling phone services of-
    secrets in cell phones. fer command sets for specific
    phones, but most people never
    Typically, law enforcement bother to go through the tedi-
    agencies rely on simply ous process, Mislan says.
    “thumbing through” a cell

    It Knows Too Much...


    phone to retrieve data, says Just as emerging fingerprint
    Sgt. Michael Harrington, a de- and DNA technologies were
    tective with the Michigan State challenged, cell phone evi-
    By Hilary Hylton, Illustrations by Renee Chen police. dence is under scrutiny.

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