FBI wants app to turn your smartphone into secret recording device

The FBI is seeking a developer for a mobile app to turn smartphones into secret audio and video recording devices that can be used as evidence in court cases. The FBI has posted a job opportunity on the US government’s federal business opportunities website seeking contractors that can create an app to give Android, iOS and Windows phones the ability to record audio using the smartphone’s built-in microphone.

 

The idea is that undercover police officers and informants could surreptitiously use their phones to record incriminating evidence whereby the data would be stored in the phone’s memory and then stream in near real-time to another device for live monitoring.

 

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