“A man’s business and reputation are tainted, a young woman’s HSC and mental health are in tatters and prosecutors have been ordered to pay more than $30,000 in legal costs for a bungled rape investigation on Sydney’s northern beaches,” Joel Gibson reports for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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“But it could have been worse still, if not for the trove of secrets stored in one of the world’s most popular mobile phones,” Gibson reports.
Gibson reports, “In what may be the first time an iPhone’s elephantine memory has saved someone accused of a serious crime, deleted data retrieved by a leading surveillance expert appears to have led to the dropping of five rape charges against a Sydney man.”
Full article here.
I know one minister who should by the iPhone asap.
(Ilkka Kanerva)
An excellent choice – if you make no “bad choices”. Not such a good idea if you are involved in something you don’t want uncovered. My own life, especially as seen by my cell phone, is so boring the investigators would be put to sleep. Repeatedly.
Get charged with rape? There’s an app for that!
Over 300 texts and calls in 3 months. 18 or not, I’d put my eyes out after 3 days.
Translate please.
I think in this context HSC stands for “Higher School Certificate”.
It’s a term used in New South Wales, Australia. I’m not sure if it’s similar to a high school diploma or a GED (General Education Develpment Test), a high school equivalency exam…
The investigating officer, Detective Senior Constable Karen Hennessy, seized the $20,000 dog, saying it was relevant to the investigation.
Witness for the prosecution, I suppose? Vee have vays of making you talk!
So giving a $20k puppy and iPhone does get you some play. Note to self it works with some backlash.
It is gratifying to hear stories of a (relatively) honest man exonerated from a serious criminal charge (relatively, because he stil secretly fscked a a girl one third his age). What is troubling with a story such as this is, every time a girl makes up a rape charge, she undermines the chances of all other girls who do get raped. We will never know how many innocent men get sent to jail on a made-up rape charges. What’s much worse is, we’ll never know how many men end up getting away with rape, just because the girl they raped wasn’t squeaky-clean in the eyes of the public, and the jury chose to believe him instead of her. Cases such as this one make it more and more difficult for rape victims to face their rapist in the court of law.
Hopefully, the legal system of the land of Oz will prosecute this girl to the maximum extent of the law.
And what exactly does this sordid little piece of nonsense have to do with Apple news?
I have personally witnessed three charges of rape among friends. One, against the girl’s grandfather was true, while the other two were teenage girls who were using rape accusations as a means to leverage power when their (sexual) advances weren’t returned as they hoped. In both false cases, the guys involved were simply lucky the friends of the girls (witnesses) would not morally support her, otherwise the wheels of justice would have just thrown them in jail and ruined their lives for nothing more than allegations. It caused so much needless pain.
Personally I hope to see this girl have the book thrown at her.
So that explains why 1 guy in Finland is such a commie-america hater…….
@Singidunum, yes, there are FAR too many innocent people locked up in the US. And there are too many crimes where the punishments FAR exceed what should be given. It is well past time to get politicians not only to back off from increased penalties, but to decriminalize some of the nonsense “crimes,” reduce many penalties, and work to exonerate the many innocent people still locked up. The US leads much of the world in the numbers we have locked up.
As it happens, there is a July 22 article on this very issue: “Too many laws, too many prisoners.”
http://www.economist.com/node/16636027/
rape charges? there’s an app for that!
here is penn & tellers take on criminal justice:
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/episodes.do?episodeid=136416&ep=807
preview:
http://www.sho.com/site/video/brightcove/series/title.do?bcpid=14033851001&bclid=115365565001&bctid=114823916001
“The keyboard logging cache means an expert can retrieve anything typed on it for up to 12 months. Its internal mapping and ”geotags” attached to photos indicate where a user has been.
An iPhone has up to 32 gigabytes of data that can be ”imaged” or decoded with the right equipment, Mr Coulthart said, even if it has been deleted.”
The above paragraph in the article is what bothers me if you lose your iPhone,