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In the world of forensic hp, the insiders have a name for all the personal information that is consciously or unconsciously stored on your mobile phone. They call it "digital fingerprint".

With the right equipment and direct access to your phone, anyone can tap into the personal details of your life: sms, photos, tweet, facebook, your appointments, your favorite sports venue, 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. Addicted people going mobile, so this is the latest and most valuable information available about someone."

While wireless companies and others have long been able to track the location of hp from a distance, it remains unclear which information can be accessed remotely. However, forensic investigators have long known that biographical data storage can be collected when they have direct access to handheld devices. Even before the discovery of the location tracking file that is shown by the researchers this week have been found on the iPhone, investigators had been collecting 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 in the country, both private and West Virginia.

Vance and his lab to help retrieve data from the iPhone including call records, map search results from Google Maps, charts stored in the browser cache, even a record of what has been typed into the iPhone virtual keyboard.

"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 continuously ignored requests for comment will archive the tracking, even when members of Congress began to ask the question why Apple tracking phone users and what he did to that information. Anyway privacy advocates warn that retrieve data from hp someone without permission is one step further down the road that has been problematic.

"This is not a cell phone - it's a 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 is in their hp," he added. "There should be a learning process so that people will begin to understand."

Privacy advocates say that the unveiling of the iPhone tracking file underscores the need for law and new legislation to determine the type and amount of information that can dikumupulkan moving equipment. In addition to the iPhone tracking file, opened that Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phones regularly send the location data to the two companies.

"I see a slippery slope," said Sharon Goott Nissim, consumer privacy representatives in the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a consumer advocacy group. "When the data collection is carried out, even harder to stop law enforcement officials to gain access to it. Way to stop this is to stop the collection of the first."

From experience over the years, investigators now have a better idea than the owner of the phone about what data they can legally get out of telephone consumers. Archive iPhone location tracking "has flown under the radar for a while," said Sean Morrissey, CEO of Katana Forensics. "For the forensic investigator, it is a good thing. You do not want to tell the bad guys that you can get the information from the phone.

"We know most of the data will be contained in mobile equipment," he said.

Forensic investigators have long been able to take a list of connections, recording calls and text messages from mobile phones. However, smartphones like the iPhone has significantly increased the amount of data. Part is related to consumers' growing use of such equipment and more and more applications available for the equipment.

Schroader, whose firm offers a forensic data retrieval tool valued at $ 199 were called iRecovery, said that while investigators have been able to explore the innards of the phone over the years, capacity growth of smartphones mean a big change in the amount of personal data now readily available.

"We have made these tools that support iPhone, Windows Mobile and Android for years, but penyimpanannyalah that changed everything," he said. "Hp jadul you have a few MB of storage. Now we are at the GB, and eventually will be in terabytes. Rather if we work together with law enforcement, which translates into more evidence, which makes us all very happy."






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