Technology is ingrained in our day-to-day lives and people produce vast amounts of information on personal computers, cellphones/smartphones, the internet, and their vehicles.
90% of U.S. households contain at least one of the following devices: smartphone, desktop/laptop computer, tablet or streaming media device, with the typical (median) American household containing five of them. And nearly one-in-five American households (18%) are “hyper-connected” – meaning they contain 10 or more of these devices. According to a survey conducted within the fourth quarter of 2016 by Pew Research, a third of Americans live in a household with three or more smartphones.
In a survey conducted May 19 to September 5, 2023, it was found that most U.S. adults today use the internet (95%), have a smartphone (90%) or subscribe to high-speed internet at home (80%). (Pew Research). Pew Research has also found nine-in-ten people now own a smartphone, up from just 35% in their first survey of smartphone ownership conducted in 2011.
Vehicles are essentially computers on wheels. A vehicles “black box” collects not only information such as the use, functionality, and location history of your vehicle, but when connected to a cellphone, may contain your personal data as well. More than 800 car models support Apple CarPlay and Android Auto is compatible with nearly every major car brand and is in over 200 million cars. Such data is being used in civil and criminal cases where, among others, the vehicle’s location history and call/text records are being called into question.
What do these numbers and rate of growth tell us? They show that people utilize technology more and more and that these devices are relied upon heavily in our day-to-day life. There is a great chance that an electronic device, such as a smartphone, will contain data related to a crime, civil matter, or even hold information that can exonerate someone.
Unfathomable perhaps, but for Granite Discovery, not insurmountable.
FORENSIC SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS
Granite Discovery experts are trained and certified in identifying the different ways people use their devices and the data they create. Whether your case is a homicide, child exploitation, fraud, sexual harassment, domestic violence, divorce, missing person, wrongful death, or restraining order violation, our experts are at the ready to begin working for you. Granite Discovery has a history of uncovering data that has been previously over looked. Granite Discovery has the ability to capture and examine electronic data from the following:
- Desktops, Laptops, and Servers
- Windows operating system computers
- Macintosh (MAC) operating system computers
- Linux operating system computers
- Cellphones/Smartphones (Android/iPhone)
- Capability to collect from over 6,400 different cellphone models
- Cell Tower & Cellular Data Analysis
- USB Thumbdrives
- External Hard drives
- GPS
TYPES OF DATA CAPTURED:
- User created documents (Word/Excel/etc..)
- Deleted Files
- Text Messaging (SMS/MMS)
- Instant Messaging
- Internet History
- Social Media
- Photographs
- Video
- GPS coordinates
- Wi-Fi
- Contacts
- Cellphone and tower analysis
- Call Logs
- iTunes
Granite Discovery provides our clients with a detailed report of our findings along with a written affidavit, and if called upon, Granite Discovery experts can provide expert witness testimony.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ’s)
- How much data can Granite Discovery collect?
- Granite Discovery has collected as little as a few giga-bytes of data from personal thumbdrives, computers, and cellphones all the way to large complex enterprise systems where terabytes of data have been collected.
- What about inoperable devices?
- Granite Discovery has the capability to recover data from inoperable devices such as computer hard drives and cellphones in order to produce relevant ESI. If Granite Discovery cannot recover the data there is no charge to the client.
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