Law enforcement Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Police adopting iPhone-based facial-recognition device

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 13th, 2011)

Police in the U.S. may soon have a new mobile tool to aid in the identification of criminals. It's called MORIS, Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System, and includes both a retinal scanner and camera to scan suspects from as far as five feet away. The system is powered by an ...

iPhone forensics market developing

by Erica Sadun (Mar 30th, 2008)

Apparently something big is going down in the iPhone forensics world. TUAW has learned that about a half dozen different firms are actively hunting for developers who can assist law enforcement in reading data off unjailbroken iPhones, both the private and public partitions. We've been in touch with ...