In 2011, a group of individuals committed an armed robbery at several Radio Shacks in Detroit – and the FBI’s main suspect was a man named Timothy Carpenter.  Utilizing data that was provided by Carpenter’s cellphone service provider, Carpenter was linked to the scene of the crime and convicted of armed robbery. At the heart of the case, which ultimately landed in the Supreme Court, was the fact that the FBI’s request for Carpenter’s cell phone location data from the phone …

The first text message was sent in 1994, at a time when phones did not have keyboards and the sender had to type the message on an actual computer.  Over the last twenty-three years, text messaging – texting, lol – has quickly become one of the most popular forms of communication. Whether for work or for personal communication, texting is easy, accessible, fast and efficient. Most people feel a wave of anxiety any time they mistakenly forget their phone at …

We have all heard the expression, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” referring to the idea that something difficult to explain can be conveyed with just a single image. But did you know that an image can provide much more information than those thousand words?  It is estimated that ten percent of all photos ever taken in the history of photography were taken in the last twelve months due to the ever increasing capabilities of mobile technology and influx …