The Government and Your Smartphone

THE *** GOVERNMENT *** AND YOUR SMARTPHONE How increased connectivity and access to information is changing the way the government interacts with its citizens The Start of a DIGITAL GOVERNMENT Digital Government Strategy Hopes To Accomplish Three Things MENT O MENT Enable the American people to access high-quality digital government infor and services on any device Ensure the adjustment to this new digital world in order to procure and manage devices, applications and data in smart, secure and affordable ways Unlock the power of government data to innovate and improve the quality of services ATES ATES O Ways Your SMARTPHONE CAN BE USED by the Government Revolutionize The Way Crimes Are Solved CRIME Smartphones are a wealth of information that can be used as evidence in solving cases such as : Emails, text messages, photos, location, and calling history. Law enforcement agencies now routinely seize and search phones Track User Locations The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit noted that Law Enforcement can tap into smartphone locations, and implant tracking devices Carriers are getting 1.5 million requests a year from law enforcement for location data GPS data can reveal a person's habits Send Government Alerts MANAGE COMM MUNICA MERGENCY AGENCY. COM SION FEDERA Congress created wireless emergency alert system in 2006 to send Amber Alerts, Weather Alerts and Presidential Alerts The $106 million dollar system is run by FEMA and the FCC People can opt-out from receiving the Amber and Weather Alerts under the "settings"on their smartphone Governmental Use of DATA IN ACTION Sharing Timely Information On Events And Catastrophes When a 5.9 earthquake hit near Richmond, Virginia on August 23rd, 2011. Residents in New York City read about the quake on Twitter feeds 30 seconds before they experienced the quake themselves Fueling The App Economy 00-00 The city of San Francisco releases its raw public transportation data on train routes, schedules, and to-the-minute location updates directly to the public through web services. 10 different mobile applications were written to support it Expediting National Investigations The Boston Marathon bombing investigation made use of crowdsourcing to collect photos and video from phones at unprecedented level These pictures were made public a little more than 72 hours after the explosions and the second suspect was arrested 29 hours later Law enforcement agencies used private-sector images to observe the comings and goings of people in order to detect a pattern of behavior with which to identify the two suspects They are examining text, emails, social media postings, Websites visited and calls made to find patterns of behavior that provide insights into the suspects Sources http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security-free-speech/keeping-government-out-your-smartphone https://www.privacyrights.org/fs/s2b-cellprivacy.htm http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/28/scary-thought-governments-will-secretly-track-our-locations-via-smartphones/ http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/opinion/kessler-digital-forensics/index.html http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smartphones/the-s http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/egow/digital-government/digital-government.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/sunday-review/thats-not-my-phone-its-my-tracker.html?_r0 http://myfox8.com/2013/02/15/government-issues-alerts-through-smartphones/ piJnz" - mobile presence on demand he-smartphone-revolution-and-open-government/5152 www.pijnz.com