The Secret Service seized the cellphones of 24 agents who were involved in responding to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and delivered the phones to the Homeland Security’s inspector general.
Homeland Security officials said they would no longer delete data on cell phones from top officials and political appointees before backing them up on external servers.
The Secret Service says it’s unable to recover deleted text messages surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Top Senate Republicans are calling on the Justice Department to investigate whether special counsel Robert Mueller and his team violated federal record-keeping laws by erasing their official phones of data.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has says its inability to crack encrypted cellphones during investigations makes the country less safe. But 72 percent of 100 cybersecurity leaders from government, academia and the private sector surveyed by the Washington Post’s “Cybersecurity 202” disagree. The survey showed a broad opposition to the FBI’s demand that device…
The number of cell phones turned over to demanding Border Patrol agents has nearly tripled from 2015 to 2016.
Password-protected cellphones have become a big problem for the FBI.
Your phone is a very intimate device.
