Can the police search your phone?

Can the police find your phone?

The answer to this question is complicated.

But it's important to know. That's because your phone, and every employee in your company, almost certainly contained the secrets of the company - or provide access to these secrets.

Phone can provide passwords, touch lists, emails, phone call meta data, pictures, spreadsheets, and other company's documents, location history, photos and more.

Property data - including information that will provide company's services to subscribers, hacking for industrial spying and malfunction - legal exhibition is protected by a complex set of United States's leading laws and standards. . But the same data is accessible to the company's phone.

Can police just take this information?

Recently, many professionals did not say anything.

Why? Since business and IT experts assure that smartphones have yet pointed out the fourth amendment suggestions against the Supreme Court on an unsafe search and conditions. And smartphones are also protected by the fifth amendment, many will say, because the "intention" to distribute passports intends to be "witness" against themselves.

Unfortunately, these beliefs are wrong.

Trouble with passcodes

Apple last year incorporated a new feature in iPhones designed to protect smartphone data from police search. When you press the ON / OFF button five times on an iPhone, it closes touch ID and face recognition.

The thought behind the unread copy button is because, the police can not force you to use Biometric, but can not use a password to unlock your phone, especially for the legal system. It makes it impossible for you to hand over the information.

Unfortunately, now this belief is weak.

We learned this week that the Florida man named William John Montezez was arrested after six months after he forgot passports with his two phones.

Montana was fired for a minor traffic infection. The police wanted to find his car. They refused. The police brought the dog into which some marijuana and gun were found. (Monteesz said that the gun was his mother.) During the capture, his phone entered a text which said, "AMG, did he get it," the police got warranty to find their phones Accused of receiving At the moment Montsey claimed that he did not remember the passport, and the judge punished him for a period of six months in jail.

For example, this serious series of events that we thought was that we knew about the security of the data on our phone. Starting as a illegal turn, we have thought about what was constitutionally secure information about the failure of the jail or the end of disadvantages of jail termination.

We recently learned a lot about location data disruption on smartphones.

The only solution to individual users who want to place location and other data private, is to switch only to this feature, such as location history in Google's Android operating system. Okay?

Really not It turns out that Google stores storage status data even after closing location history.

The error was based on the incorrect information available on Google's site. Turns Location History off, the site said, "the places you walk are not storing more." Actually they were stored, not just in the user's accessible location area.

Google corrected the wrong language, adding, "Some locations' data can be saved as part of your activity as search and maps on other services."

Secure data matters

The FBI recently sought a data about all people using Google's location services within a part of the investigation of a series of poles in Poland, Mainland. This application included names, addresses, phone numbers, "session" times and periods, login IP addresses, email addresses, log files and payment information.

The order also said Google can not inform users of the demand of the FBI.

Google did not follow the request. But he did not keep the FBI over emphasizing it.

In fact, police are preparing their methods, intentions and technology to find smartphones.

Police data processing machines

Grayshift device, which is called Gray Shift, can disable any iPhone or iPad.

Gray Shifts License to devices and 300 phone trees every year for $ 15,000.

This is a trunk system. Each GrayKey has two electric cables. The police only needs a plugin in one phone, and finally the phone screen appears on the phone screen, gets complete access.

Due to the introduction of a new "USB Bondage mode" for Apple iPhone phones. This mode is that the police (or criminals) are difficult to crush the phone through the power port.

Mode is enabled by Default, which is to say "switch" has been turned off in settings for USB devices. With this switch off, the power port will not connect to anything after the phone is closed for an hour.

Unfortunately, for the users of the iPhone, the "USB Restricted Mode" is easily available with $ 39 dongley available.

And American police data - is not the only country with cutting machines.

World of trouble for smartphone data

Chinese authorities have acquired their technology for data collection, and now this technology is being deployed by the police in the field. Police anywhere in the country, it can say that anyone signs a phone, which is then scanned from a device, which is allegedly used throughout China.

Chinese officials have both desktop and handheld scanners, who can automatically extract and embed emails, social posts, videos, photos, call history, text messages and contacts lists to help themselves find I help.

Some reports show that these devices which are made by both Israeli and Chinese companies are unable to crush iPhones but can access every other type of phone.

Another factor is being considered that the safety of the US Constitution literally ends within the border.

As I have described here in the past, American Customs Framework is a "gray area" for constitutional protection.

And once abroad, all the conditions are closed. Even friendly, pro-privacy countries such as Australia.

The Australian government proposes a law of aid and access bill 2018 on Tuesday. If this rule becomes lawful, people are required to unlock their phone for police or to face a ten-year jail (the current is maximum for two years).

It will empower the police legally and to bug or hack phones.

Other companies will force companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook, if technically possible, to provide access to the police to their customers' private encrypted data.

Failed to comply with $ 7.3 million and jail time penalty.

The police will need warranty to phone, break or hack.

Another law can never become. But Australia is one of the many countries that will be affected by the new political will at the time when eliminating the privacy of the smartphone when the law comes to enforce.

If you remove anything from this column, please remember: What is likely to happen in Smartphone's search test is changing every day.

Generally, smartphones are less secure than police searches, not much safer.

Therefore, every IT department, in promoting every enterprise and every business development - especially from which we travel internationally on business - it is important that data on smartphone is not protected from official scrutiny.

At that time smartphones have time to re-enter company policies, training, procedures and permissions.