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Police officers conducting a search of a suspect's premises must present a valid search warrant. Police officers requesting that a telecom company aid in survei
by maxaf 7y ago
Police officers conducting a search of a suspect's premises must present a valid search warrant. Police officers requesting that a telecom company aid in surveillance of a suspect must present a valid search warrant. Google, despite of late being the butt of all jokes, will not cooperate with police officers unless a valid warrant is presented. Thus it follows that Cellebrite isn't somehow excluded from following the law just like all those other companies, and cannot support unlocking of iPhones or other devices without being shown a valid search warrant.
- delinka 7y agoCelebrate doesn't need to know anything about warrants. They sell a physical device to law enforcement agencies. They don't validate individual uses of the equipment. Seems to me no different than a gun manufacturer selling guns to law enforcement and not needing to validate individual firings of the gun.
- pessimizer 7y agoYou have more than enough information on your phone to enable a parallel construction.
- miracle2k 7y agoFirst, police officers conducting a search do not need to present a warrant; they can certainly ask for you to volunteer access. Companies that require law enforcement to provide a warrant may be obligated to do so by some kind of data protection legislation, but I doubt this is generally the case; more likely, we would consider this a courtesy to their customers. Finally Cellebrite does not seem to actually do any unlocking; rather, it sells it's tool to the government. As long as that sale is legal, they are out of the picture.