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Michigan State Police Reverse on Use of Messaging App That Can Evade FOIA Requests
Loaded on April 15, 2021
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
May, 2021, page 28
Filed under:
Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet,
Electronic Surveillance,
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Location:
Michigan.
by Douglas Ankney
The Michigan State Police (“MSP”) made admissions in a lawsuit revealing that top officials within the MSP used a text-messaging encryption app that causes messages to self-destruct once deleted, leaving no permanent record on officials’ phones or servers. Since then, Colonel Joseph Gasper issued a new policy ...
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