ACLU concerned over Michigan State Police extracting data from cellphones

Michigan State Police officers, equipped with forensic cellphone analyzers, have extracted data from cellphones during their police work, and the American Civil Liberties Union wants to know more about it.

The ACLU has raised concerns over the legality of the cellphone scanners (which can scan both regular cellphones and smartphones) and whether the 4th Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, is being violated by the state police. In a letter to the Col. Kriste Etue, the director of the Michigan State Police, the ACLU alleged that the agency has used such cellphone analyzers, called the Cellebrite UFED, in the field and has taken data from phones.