Police able to access ‘eye-watering’ amounts of personal data using new technology, privacy activists warn
Privacy International says law enforcement agencies are increasingly using ‘cloud extraction’ to hack suspects, witnesses and victims' phones
LAW enforcement agencies can access “eye-watering” amounts of personal information from suspects’ phones using secretive new technology, a data privacy group has warned.
Privacy International said that police forces around the world are increasingly using new tech known as cloud extraction to hack the phones of suspects, witnesses and victims in criminal investigations.
This allows users to obtain information from the cloud, a term widely used to describe data not stored on a user’s device but remotely on a third-party server.
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