The State Police Want to Crack Your Phone
The Israeli firm Cellebrite offers tools that unlock data, trawl search histories, and perform facial recognition. The New York State Police are in the market.
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Technology moves so much faster than anything in the law or politics.
New York’s search warrant statute was written more than 50 years ago, before the proliferation of modern computers.