{"id":24283,"date":"2017-06-28T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24283"},"modified":"2017-06-28T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:34:04","slug":"new-device-allows-cops-to-download-all-of-your-smartphone-activity-in-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24283","title":{"rendered":"New Device Allows Cops to Download All of Your Smartphone Activity in Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b> New York \u00a0\u2014<\/i> \u201cAny person who operates a motor vehicle in the state shall be deemed to have given consent to field testing of his or her mobile telephone and\/or personal electronic device for the purpose of determining the use thereof while operating a motor vehicle, provided that such testing is conducted by or at the direction of a police officer.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

That\u2019s language from the text of a bill<\/a> currently working its way through the New York state legislature. The legislation would allow cops to search through drivers\u2019 cell phones following traffic incidents \u2014 even minor fender-benders \u2014 to determine if the person was using their phone while behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

Most states have laws banning the use of mobile devices while driving, though such laws are rarely enforced. This is largely because it\u2019s nearly impossible to catch someone in the act. What person would admit to an officer that they broke the law, the argument goes, particularly when it\u2019s after the fact? After all, cops don\u2019t show up until after the accident occurs.<\/p>\n

Now, technology exists<\/a> that would give police the power to plug drivers\u2019 phones into tablet-like devices \u2014 being called \u201ctextalyzers\u201d in the media \u2014 that tell officers exactly what they were doing on their phone and exactly when they were doing it. And if the readout shows a driver was texting while driving, for instance, the legal system will have an additional way to fine them.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecording your every click, tap or swipe, it would even know what apps you were using. Police officers could download the data, right on the spot,\u201d<\/i> Jeff Rossen of NBC News<\/i> said<\/a> in a video report on the technology.<\/p>\n

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New Device Allows Cops to Download All of Your Smartphone Activity in Seconds (ANTIMEDIA) New York \u00a0\u2014 \u201cAny person who operates a motor vehicle in the state shall be deemed to have given consent to field testing of his or her mobile telephone and\/or personal electronic device for the purpose of determining the use thereof […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8803,632,15456],"class_list":["post-24283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-antimedia","tag-police","tag-smartphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24284,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24283\/revisions\/24284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}