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Search, Download Evidence On Locked Mobile Phones
- Wall Street Journal, Friday, September 7, 2012 11:49 AM
Innocent until proven guilty, yes -- but murderers also sometimes kill the wrong intended target. Julia Angwin tells us about a legal battle between tech companies like Google and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that would give law enforcement access to unlock mobile phones to search for information. She points to the perceived difficulties of getting the information in a locked phone with encrypted information, but actually it's quite easy.
