Your local police force could download everything from your phone without your consent

Long Read

Post date

27th March 2019

(In order to click the hyperlinks in the explainer below, please download the pdf version at the bottom of the page).

You can also watch a short animated explainer about mobile phone extraction here.

Our campaign

Neighbourhood Watched

Phone Data Extraction: digital stop and search

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Communities at Risk

Rights Defenders and Journalists

Protest Surveillance

Policing and Technology

Tech at the Border

Smartphones

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Explainers

Our fight

Contesting Government Data and System Exploitation

Defending Democracy and Dissent

Location

United Kingdom

Attachments

You can download this explainer here

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