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War and conflict must not dominate our societies and technologies.

AdTech - short for advertising technology - is a catch-all term that describes the tools and services behind the ads that appear online. The industry is notorious for its bad practices of extensive data exploitation.

Mobile phone extraction tools enable police and other authorities to download content and associated data from people’s phones. This can apply to suspects, witnesses, and even victims of crime – often without their knowledge or consent.

Mobile Phone Extraction (MPE) involves the use of ‘push-button’ extraction tools, retention and analysis of data extracted from a phone and cloud-stored data. Such technologies enable police and others to obtain device information, phonebooks, call logs, texts, videos and photos, audio files, emails and other information about you.

MPE technology is often used in criminal investigations to analyse the phones of suspects as well as victims of crime. It has also been used to target migrants and asylum seekers.