Tag: cellphone forensics

Phone data used to establish timeline, locations; childhood friend of Paul Murdaugh testifies

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Towers are separated into 3 sectors; records show tower number and tower sector; and then azimuth and direction of the antenna. From collected data, Wilde was able to create a map of coverage. Another set of records – Verizon RTT records – are an estimation of distance between phone and tower at time of call. All of the data combined shows a cell phone’s location at specific times and the towers and antennas used to transmit calls. […]

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Charges: Mother drinking, looking at GPS before Cloquet crash that killed 3-year-old

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An Onamia, Minnesota, woman allegedly admitted to having multiple drinks and looking at the GPS on her cellphone before she veered off a Cloquet road and killed her 3-year-old son in a crash Sunday afternoon. […]

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Google confirms Android 11 will limit third-party camera apps because of location spying fears

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Google is making a change in Android 11 that will force apps that want to take photos or video to use the phone’s built-in camera app. […]

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Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters’ phones against them (The searches, sometimes known as reverse location requests, increased fivefold from 2018 to 2019.)

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Rather than seeking warrants for a person backed up with probable cause, police have begun relying on geofence warrants that sweep up information on any device that happened to be in the vicinity of a crime. […]

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