Monday, November 27, 2017

Police Departments Who Use A Digital Forensic Investigator

By Stephanie Walker


It is not uncommon for children, and sometimes women, to disappear seemingly without a trace. It is always hoped that these kids are found and returned safely home. However, no matter the outcome, parents want to know where their missing loved ones are, and a digital forensic investigator may be able to track them if they carry any Internet-connected device.

The GPS system which provides us with directions to our local coffee house can also be used to find our missing kids. Smart parents keep location sharing turned on with their kids so they can see where they are at all times. This can not only save their lives in an emergency, but it helps keep the kids out of trouble, or at least informs the parents if their kids are not where they said they would be.

The police departments are able to access the information even if the phone is turned off or destroyed. Not only that, but they can access all messages shared right up until communication is terminated. During the late 1990s the possibilities of this technology became apparent in missing persons cases, and most police departments took heed and hired professionals in this field.

The Nineties was an era where this technology was just being introduced, and most people did not know how much information could be gleaned from their phones. This lack of foresight on the part of a perpetrator was helpful to law enforcement at that time. However, as the potential for data mining a phone to prosecute crime became a mainstream notion, criminals learned how to evade this type of investigation.

In the years hence, there have been literally thousands of cellular towers erected and satellites deployed. Now the entire planet is on a high-tech grid that can potentially be watched in real time, whenever necessary. Anyone with any form of Internet device on their possession, in their bodies, or on their clothing can be tracked to within a few feet of their location.

The downside to such technology is that a great deal of privacy is being eroded. However, in the United States, law enforcement must be able to obtain a court order in order to pry into such private data. Parents are regarded as having a right to monitor the whereabouts of their children via their devices, and the technology to do so has become more and more available.

The grey area about such monitoring comes with couples monitoring one-another. Whether married or not, there is a great deal of disagreement on what constitutes an acceptable degree of prying, and when it becomes stalking. Naturally, the use of electronic spying between married couples has been regarded as basically acceptable, just as hiring private investigators has been in the past.

Of course, men think they should never be spied on or monitored by wives or girlfriends while women believe that anyone in a committed relationship has a right to know what their partner is up to. Men, it seems, by and large wish to be able to keep secrets in their lives. Even those who are not cheating appear to want to keep open the potential to get away with infidelity.




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