Cellebrite pitches data-siphoning solution to COVID-19

Reuters:

Cellebrite is pitching the same capability to help authorities learn who a coronavirus sufferer may have infected. When someone tests positive, authorities can siphon up the patient’s location data and contacts, making it easy to “quarantine the right people,” according to a Cellebrite email pitch to the Delhi police force this month.

Just iPhone their data and contacts. You’ll get permission first, right?

This would usually be done with consent, the email said. But in legally justified cases, such as when a patient violates a law against public gatherings, police could use the tools to break into a confiscated device, Cellebrite advised.

And:

“We do not need the phone passcode to collect the data”

What could go wrong? The mind reels.