Processing of Mobile Devices from Victims or Witnesses

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Presented at TechnoSecurity&DigitalForensics 2019 by

Martin Novak

Suddhir Aggarwal

Gokila Dorai

Existing law enforcement tools to collect evidence from mobile devices are designed based on the assumption that the device in question has been legally taken from the alleged perpetrator of a crime because of its potential evidentiary value. As a result, they are likely to capture all data held on a mobile device including data that are not germane to the incident in question. Law enforcement needs the capability to collect digital evidence from victim or witness devices discriminately – where broad capture of all data might capture data that are not relevant to the case being investigated. Protection of the privacy of data from witness and victim mobile devices that are not appropriate to the incident is paramount in this instance. This session will a new technology for processing mobile devices from victims or witnesses – Targeted Forensic Data Extraction from Mobile Devices (TFDEMD).