They probably view MAGA as a network, so they are mining contact lists to establish who is who for when the arrests start in earnest...
They’re using them to spy on people as usual
There are still many forms of secure communication. Yes everything on your google/microsoft/facebook/discord etc are recorded and will be used against you.
For instance the latest rage is Visa/MasterCard tracking gun sales. Do you think google has NOT cataloged all of your order confirmations you have received in your gmail?
However there are still many 3rd party fully open source and audited communications applications. These are the ones congress wages war against when they talk about “regulating” encryption, or when elites starts to pursue shady DRM-ish mystery chips.
Not everything on a phone is backed up at the provider’s or other data centers. The phone has a file system in which you can store files locally. Phones also have slots for SD memory cards for expanded local storage.
The apps on a phone depend on what the user has personally installed. Only by knowing the assortment of user apps can law enforcement know what cloud databases to subpoena.
The data might not be on the cloud, there’s a lot of stuff on my phone that isn’t on the cloud. And really it’s just the modern version of “get all the possibly related documents”. Back in the 90s when MS was going through those anti-trust cases they had to turn over almost all their corporate email. That’s a big part of any investigation that revolves around data, get it all and make the interns figure out what matters.
Harassment.
The Gestapo takes what it wants.
The powers that be are terrified of any data that is outside of their reach.
Anyone who has worked in cryptography has run up against their insatiable need to possess ALL data...
The repository at Bluffdale is a testament to their fetish.
Fascists gotta fascist. It’s a wonder the left isn’t building ovens in the open. Or are they?
One thing folks should consider — if they have sensitive information on their phones — is to disable the face-recognition unlock function. Set your phone to passcode-only. There’s been several incidents where corrupt FBI goons confiscated a Trump supporter’s phone and aimed it at their face to unlock it so it could be downloaded.
Keep a burner as a backup. They can have that one.
Check out this thread: FREE REPUBLIC THREAD: Federal Court Cancels Hearing Over Trump Election Lawyer’s Attempt to Reclaim Seized Phone After DOJ Obtains SECOND Search Warrant
In summary, the FBI seized his phone, and when he sued to get it back, the FBI could not produce the warrant, so the judge just "issued another one" after the fact.
They are grabbing at straws in a hurricane.
They hope to find ‘other stuff’ on these phones that they can then prosecute, and get the owners to turn against Trump.........................
Who had they phone snatched and how do you know?
Maybe the phone snatchers just want to make a phone call.
Like to tell they mama hello or happy birthday.
Don’t you like mamas and birthdays?
It seems to be the beginning of the end considering silence/acquiescence coming from the opposition party.
My thought is to
1) backup your phone on a regular basis (weekly or at a min monthly)
2) encrypt you phone where possible
3) used encryption for communications on any legal / lawyer messages
Modern smart phones contain everything. Banking apps, chat apps, email apps, tracking apps, mileage apps, shopping apps, medical apps. Basically everything in your life can be contained on a smart phone. Once the criminal FBI liars get a hold of it they can do whatever they want. AND if there is nothing “illegal” they will have no problem posting some kind of illegal materials (child porn, terroristic threats, “conspiracies” etc) to frame uncooperative marks. What are the odds that AFTER these phones are collected they all suddenly contain “seditious conspiracy” messages to each other? Or what is to stop an enterprising loyal agent of the Biden gestapo, I mean FBI, to plant illegal materials? Nothing.
I sincerely hope that anyone in the Trump admin learned early on not to use a network cell phone to send out anything that could be of interest to an enemy, aka the FIB, much less the Chicoms (who have it all, including the BIG STEAL).
I’m imagining the FIB techs who get these phones, sighing, “Oh, well, nothing here. What do you want me to put on it?”
It’s the Phone Cops, man!