“Deleted” SnapChat Photos Saved in Phone Data, Can Be Examined as Evidence
Snapchat is a new and very popular smartphone app with millions of downloads. The photos people take with the app are being used to assist law enforcement, lawyers, and parents. The app advertises that once the sender sends a photo, the receiver has approximately ten seconds to view the photo before it is deleted and will never be seen again. Decipher Forensics, a firm based out of Orem, Utah, has been extracting photos from the app, stating that the photos are never fully deleted. Decipher Forensics has stated that they have perfected the steps for extracting these photos from Android devices and are currently working on iPhone smartphones. Digital forensics examiner, Richard Hickman, reveals that the app actually saves the photos to the phone and then can be extracted using digital forensics and issued to law enforcement or necessary recipients.
Source: KSL.com Utah News
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Citation: Adams, A. (2013, May 8). KSL.com Utah. ‘Deleted’ snapchat photos saved in phone data, can be examined as evidence. Retrieved May 9, 2013, from http://www.ksl.com/?sid=25106057&nid=148
[Abstract by ForensIQ intern, Andrea Williams]