Fascinating stuff. By coincidence I co-organised a seminar in London yesterday on 'radical data' for research (http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/ methods/events/RadicalData/Programme.htm). It didn't really discuss forensic applications. Perhaps it should have done. Come to think of it why didn't I announce it to this list. Sorry about that.
Anyway we had a couple of presentations on the use of mobile (cell, GSM, bluetooth) logging & spatial tracking as part of mixed-method studies of mobility. So the traces were presented back to participants during in-depth interviews in a sort of 'sense-making' session. These highlighted issues which make this forensics story disturbing, for e.g.: - the prevalence of calls being made by others on one's mobile - esp. for some social groups - the fact that it is the device not the person that is being tracked... Younger siblings swap/share cell phones. - the awareness of traceability and the response = to switch phones off /leave them on but at home/or give them to someone else beforehand - the perfect alibi (perhaps Anderson had previously given his cell phone to a friend under instructions to drive very fast across town for 10 minutes) Ben On 10 May 2007, at 14:48, Barry Wellman wrote: > > http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/05/cellphone_forensics > > Courts Cast Wary Eye on Evidence Gleaned From Cell Phones > Annalee Newitz Email 05.10.07 | 2:00 AM > > The afternoon of Sept. 18, 1993, someone set fire to a notorious Los > Angeles drug house near the University of Southern California, > killing an > addict. Four years later, R&B singer Waymond Anderson was convicted > of the > murder, based on the shaky testimony of two eyewitnesses, and on a > third, > silent witness whose implacable digital testimony the defense > didn't dare > challenge: Anderson's cell phone. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
