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Let’s be frank for a moment and admit that all of us have talked on the phone or texted while driving. I feel guilty for doing both, but the truth of the matter is that distracted driving is a big no-no by all accounts. The dangers of texting and driving could become a thing of the past soon enough, though.
Cellebrite is an Israeli company that assisted the FBI in cracking the iPhone. They’re that good, alright. After the decryption battle with Apple was settled, Cellebrite decided to develop a contraption labeled as a textalyzer. Put plainly, it’s a gizmo that determines whether the driver was using the mobile phone prior to a crash. “Uhm, Fourth Amendment much?”
Indeed. The Cellebrite textalyzer gets around this matter of privacy rights by keeping data such as contacts, conversations, and numbers private. In other words, the textalyzer’s sole purpose is to tell the police officer if a phone was in use before a crash or other mishaps attributed to texting and driving. Believe it or not, Senate Bill S6325A will probably enact the use of the textalyzer in the State of New York.
The document is attached in the release below these paragraphs and the thing that interests us the most is the following line: “An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the executive law, in relation to the field testing of mobile telephones and portable electronic devices after a motor vehicle accident or collision involving damage to real or personal property, personal injury or death.” The bill hasn’t passed senate and assembly at the time of writing, but there’s a chance the unimaginable might happen. For the greater good, of course.
If the bill is signed by the Governor, it would give New York police officers the right to plug a phone into a textalyzer such as the one that’s developed by Cellebrite following a crash. This opinion may not prove popular with some readers, but I’m down with that. You see, using a phone while driving is especially popular among teens, a category that is more likely to have a crash in the first place than other motorists. The more pressing question is, what happened to Bluetooth hands-free calling?
Indeed. The Cellebrite textalyzer gets around this matter of privacy rights by keeping data such as contacts, conversations, and numbers private. In other words, the textalyzer’s sole purpose is to tell the police officer if a phone was in use before a crash or other mishaps attributed to texting and driving. Believe it or not, Senate Bill S6325A will probably enact the use of the textalyzer in the State of New York.
The document is attached in the release below these paragraphs and the thing that interests us the most is the following line: “An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the executive law, in relation to the field testing of mobile telephones and portable electronic devices after a motor vehicle accident or collision involving damage to real or personal property, personal injury or death.” The bill hasn’t passed senate and assembly at the time of writing, but there’s a chance the unimaginable might happen. For the greater good, of course.
If the bill is signed by the Governor, it would give New York police officers the right to plug a phone into a textalyzer such as the one that’s developed by Cellebrite following a crash. This opinion may not prove popular with some readers, but I’m down with that. You see, using a phone while driving is especially popular among teens, a category that is more likely to have a crash in the first place than other motorists. The more pressing question is, what happened to Bluetooth hands-free calling?
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