Saturday, November 25, 2017

How A Digital Forensic Investigator Finds Kids

By Stephanie Walker


Worried parents will go to any lengths to find their missing children. Whether these kids are very young and presumed kidnapped, or if it is a teenager who may simply be off on a lark, there are modern tools available that help locate them. If the missing individual carries a phone or other device, they can be tracked by a digital forensic investigator.

The GPS system can now be utilized for more than just finding new restaurants and local hangouts. Police are using this Global Positioning System to track missing people and find runaway teenagers. Anyone who carries an Internet interfacing device can be tracked if the police are able to get a Court Order to do so.

The police departments are able to access the information even if the phone is turned off or destroyed. Not only that, but they can access all messages shared right up until communication is terminated. During the late 1990s the possibilities of this technology became apparent in missing persons cases, and most police departments took heed and hired professionals in this field.

The Nineties was an era where this technology was just being introduced, and most people did not know how much information could be gleaned from their phones. This lack of foresight on the part of a perpetrator was helpful to law enforcement at that time. However, as the potential for data mining a phone to prosecute crime became a mainstream notion, criminals learned how to evade this type of investigation.

Due to the erection of cellular and WiFi towers, as well as the launch of many hundreds of satellites, every Internet interface device can be tracked to a few feet of its location. RFID chips help people to find lost pets, and now they can even be used to find lost toys. The fact is, it is more than just telephones that a kidnapper would need to get rid of in order to prevent being tracked.

Technology has always eroded privacy, and this fact is becoming more and more apparent. While many warn of inherent dangers in this, the fact remains that it can help to find and even save someone who would not have been saved a few decades ago. It is important, however, that we continue to expect law enforcement to obtain Court Orders before they are allowed to access data records of private citizens.

Debate rages when it comes to what is or is not allowable between private citizens, as much of this technology has become available to everyone. Parents routinely keep tabs on their children. However, controversy remains about whether or not these same parents, if married and/or living together, should be able to keep such tabs on each other.

The argument about electronic spying runs right down the middle between women and men. Women are more eager to know where there partner is, and what they are doing both on and off the Internet. Women are also more willing to be monitored themselves while men seem to wish to keep a window of opportunity open for themselves to get away with infidelity and deceit.




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