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Originally Posted by plato
LEOS carry firearms that could be used to execute speeders on the spot...
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Granted sir, yet the purpose of those firearms is to assist the officers in the execution of their duties and for the defense of the general public from bad guys. I have no problem with armed LEOs, I WANT them armed to the full potential of their capabilities. I do not see this being an applicable parallel to the topic. What purpose to the devices in question serve? Will they help the LEOs carry out their duties? Do they assist in protecting the general public from the bad guys?
One could argue that they could be used to enforce the cell phone/ texting laws that are present in some states. If that is the case then the implementation of that technology should be such that you could ONLY extract messaging time stamps and/or call log time stamps.
But given the homogenous nature of current devices, it would be impossible to restrict the data dump to these specific areas. Each device manufacturer has their own method of storing/saving this data, proprietary formats, file locations etc...
So not only do they get your text MESSAGES, they get your contacts, your calender, your pictures of your kids, intimate messages and images of your loved one, information about your children. Its a personal security violation of the highest order. Do they think they will inform people of the following; "Sir, I am going to run this check and verify you were not using your phone while driving. In the process I will extract all available data/media/messages"?
I adamantly resist the notion that this is ok, or that it will be used responsibly. If they need to know anything about my phone usage, I'll be happy to give them my number and they can get everything they need from my service provider. If they need more specific information, they can get it from the NSA.
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Originally Posted by plato
I have an early version of one of those devices, called a Toshiba Laptop. There's a free program, available on the internet, called "bitpim" that lets me read most of the info trom a phone via its cable. Nothing new here.
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It is your phone and your information. You are completely free to do whatever you want to with it, but your information would no longer be yours. Would you not mind all that information floating around a police station, only as secure as the lowest paid persons morals allow? You can be damn sure that they will not EVEN BEGIN to understand how to store that information responsibly. There are not even laws in place of how to treat this type of information! Look at all the issues that have resulted from social media that have taken years to settle in court. At the local level, I think we are at least 10 years from having the legal framework to properly allow police departments to use this technology safely.
This is my humble view.
Respectfully