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‘Super Phone Bills’ Can Prove You’re Lying In Court

When you make a call, send a text or use data on your phone, your cellular carrier is quietly recording it all. These records, known as Call Detail Records, or CDRs, create a digital trail that is invaluable in many investigations and legal cases.

While most people understand that smartphones contain personal data, few realize that cellular carriers maintain extensive records of our communications and movements—records that can be legally obtained and used as powerful evidence in courtrooms. And unlike the phone itself, which might be lost, damaged or wiped clean, these carrier records are systematically preserved, sometimes for years. […]

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Warrants: Cellphone data, shell casings used to find NC State student charged in multi-day string of shootings

The search warrants listed various items seized from the two-story home on Kentford Court in southwest Raleigh where Graney was arrested Thursday, including a digital camera, a silver laptop computer, a 0.45 caliber handgun with magazine, a black gun case with live ammunition and shell casings. The warrants also requested the search of a 2015 Hyundai Sonata registered to Graney. […]

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