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Buying a brand new low-cost phone can leave you with an outdated operating system and exploitative apps.

Exploiting new technologies that are in our homes and on our bodies as part of criminal investigations and for use as evidence, raises new challenges and risks that have not been sufficiently explored. 

We look at how apps are exposing peoples' activities and behaviours to Facebook.

Powerful governments are financing, training and equipping countries — including authoritarian regimes — with surveillance capabilities.
 

The use of ‘mobile phone extraction’ tools enables police forces to download all of the content and data from people’s phones. This can apply to suspects, witnesses and even victims – without their knowledge.