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Mobile Device Data Collection from Global EDD Group

January 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Everyone seems to have a smart phone. These devices store a wide variety of information, some not even apparent to the owner. Our data collection teams are equipped to retrieve data from cell phones and other mobile devices in a forensically sound manner that preserves the evidence, ensuring that it is admissible in court proceedings.

The extent to which we can recover data is heavily based on the cell phone or device model. However, we can extract some useful data from about 95% of all cellular phones on the market today, including smartphones and PDA devices (Palm OS, Microsoft, Blackberry, Symbian, iPhone, and Google Android).

Here are some of the types of information we can gather:

  • Phonebook contacts
  • Phone details: IMEI / ESN and Phone number
  • ICCID and IMSI
  • SIM location information: TMSI, MCC, MNC, LAC
  • Text messages including deleted SMS off SIM / USIM
  • Call logs ( Missed / Dialed / Received including deleted call histories off SIM / USIM )
  • Pictures
  • Videos
  • Audio files
  • Ringtones
  • Geo tagging pictures and mapping through Google Earth
  • Password Extraction
  • Bypass SIM Locked phones (carrier lock) when original SIM is not available.
  • Unicode Extraction for Multiple Languages
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Some Malls Tracking Shoppers Through Their Cell Phones This Holiday Season | PCWorld

November 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment

For some mall shoppers, Black Friday has become Track Friday.

Thanks to a snoopy piece of tech from a U.K. company called Path Intelligence, some malls in Europe, Australia, and the United States will be tracking shoppers’ movements today through their cell phones.

A small number of discreet monitoring units installed throughout a mall, the company says, can grab signals from consumers’ mobile phones and track their movements with an accuracy of “a few meters.” That information is fed to a processing center where it is audited and analyzed to create a real-time picture of traffic flow through a shopping center. Mall operators can keep constant tabs on the information through Path Intelligence’s secure web-based reporting system.

As you’d expect with someone engaged in this kind of unsettling activity, the company swears it’s committed to protecting the privacy of the people it’s surveilling. “[O]ur detector units do not allow us to obtain your telephone number, to listen to any of your calls, read any SMS messages read or sent by you, or to log details of any calls or SMS messages made or received by you,” Path Intelligence states on its website. “Neither does any of the information received allow us to identify you or any group of individuals.”

Two U.S. malls–Promenade Temecula in Southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va.–will be launching the tracking service today and will use it through New Year’s Day, according to a report by CNN.

via Some Malls Tracking Shoppers Through Their Cell Phones This Holiday Season | PCWorld.

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