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Police Can Get More From Your Phone Than You May Believe
Loaded on June 15, 2023
by Michael Thompson
published in Criminal Legal News
July, 2023, page 41
Filed under:
Police State-Surveillance,
Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet.
Location:
United States of America.
by Michael Dean Thompson
Few of us would not feel violated to learn that our spouse or partner has been digging through our phone. Imagine if they were to use that data to analyze where we’ve been and who we’ve been near, and then, they were to gain access to ...
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