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ACLU: Michigan cops stealing drivers’ phone data | Crave – CNET.
The police can plug your cellphone into a device (sold by Cellebrite) and extract your personal data, and it appears that this is being done to motorists being stopped in Michigan.
This has got the ACLU pretty worked up, and in this rare case, they are probably correct.
India has more mobile phones than toilets: UN report – Telegraph.
The story is that there are enough cell phones for almost half of India’s population, but only a third of the people had access to “proper” sanitation in 2008.
Pharmer recognizes that the UN is prone to exaggerating stories in order to promote their programs. The infrastructure for cell phones is cheaper to build and maintain than the huge construction of systems needed for a supporting a toilet in every home. There’s a wild, electronic industrial revolution going on in Asia, so this claim could be a shade closer to the truth than other stuff coming out of the UN.
Take home: Giving to organizations which dig for clean water supplies in various parts of the world might be the most efficient way to support human life.