UK Police Adopt New System to Extract Data from Phones
Police in London have adopted a new system that will allow them to quickly extract data from suspects' phones.
The Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom has started the roll out of a new system that's capable of extracting data from mobile phones extremely quickly. The technology comes from Radio Tactics and is called ACESO. The data extraction solution will be used across 16 boroughs in the capital. ACESO allows police to quickly extra data from the mobile phones (even SIM locked phones) of suspects while they're in custody.
The Metropolitan Police will be using the ACESO Kiosk, which is a touchscreen desktop set-up. Deputy Assistant Commission of the Metropolitan Police Service, Stephen Kavanagh, explained that it will be used when a suspect is arrested and found with a phone that police suspect may have been used in crime. Kavanagh said traditional methods of data extraction involve sending the phone to the lab for analysis while the new system will give officers immediate access to the phone's data while the suspect is still in custody.
"Mobile phones and other devices are increasingly being used in all levels of criminal activity," Stephen Kavanagh, Deputy Assistant Commission of the Metropolitan Police Service," said in a statement. "Our ability to act on forensically-sound, time-critical information, from SMS to images contained on a device quickly gives us an advantage in combating crime, notably in terms of identifying people of interest quickly and progressing cases more efficiently," he later added.
As many as 300 Met personnel will be trained on the system.

I don't feel safer either.
I don't feel safer either.
then if someone decided to copy your personal info, they will get pretty sparks from the phone instead
modern smartphones often skimp on diodes and other protection circuits in order to reduce the cost and size of the unit, this makes it easier to fry them if power goes in the wrong areas (the only areas with any real protection, are the charging circuits, but send power into one of the data pins and you will quickly begin to fry things in the phone (just fine ones with the least protected paths to any of the memory chips for faster results)
The UK is a little different, they often pioneer the tyranny a few years before it makes it's way to the US, (most of the freedoms lost in the past 30 years, were lost in the UK first, then made their way to the US 3-6 years later)
It'd be extremely embarassing if nothing incriminating was found and the suspect is acquitted, sans one smartphone from his pockets.
You do realize that the US constitution does not apply to countries that are not the US, right?
Who cares if it’s not in constitution or if there is a Constitution to begin with? IF we as people tell our Gov. we don’t want something then they HAVE TO listen to us since they are elected to do as we tell them, no more no less. But that is only if those demands fare followed by "OR ELSE" and we are ready to see it through.
How come so many let them self being controlled by so few. Why do you think our founding fathers said that if people want to change the constitution at any point they should be able to do so and they have the right to do so? Because who would be able to stop us from doing it anyway? Few ass politicians? WE ARE in control it’s just that they keep most of us in delusion that we have none. So next time someone says it’s not in the constitution or they don’t have one then tell them: SO WHAT!? Since when does WRONG become RIGHT because its not written on a paper or someone 200 years ago didn’t die for it? That’s why this tyranny will continue till they have (thx to technology) the total control over our opinions on everything and we actually are incapable to have independent opinion and the will to fight for what WE think is right.
I have predicted this and 1000 things 20 years ago....I realize how right I was 12 years ago but i would have never thought we would go down w/o a fight. Average person of today will is using his/her RIGHTS as commodity bargaining tool for convenience. I wonder what will happen ones they have run out of rights with which to trade. And while this is sad it is not as sad as how many people will down-rate this comment. I remember how we asked our teacher back in the day as to how it was possible for so many people of one of the most civilized country of that time period to fallow Hitler and only so few seemed to realize and have the guts to resist....well I’m scared that I will get to answer my own question sometime in the future...jet I believe in American spirit, or maybe I too have become delusional. I hope so since the price of me being right would be too great to just being able to say: I told you so.
There is is fellas, in all it's glory. God save the Queen of idiots!
i did this and it was not trivial to say the least. it is simple idea but execution is complicated by small scale of components and PCB traces. this requires skill and tools that are not in everyone's toolbox.
This has got to be the height of craziness.
If we don't want you to lay hands on our phones there ain't diddle shit you can do about it without a warrant, you touch my phone and it's invasion of privacy.
Get data out of it "illegally" is data theft......