Stefan Mileschin

Backdoor policing

The San Diego Police Foundation, an organisation that receives donations from corporations, purchased iPhone unlocking technology for the city's police department.

The emails obtained by Motherboard these police foundations reveal a rather dark side to privately run charities that raise funds from Wall Street banks and other companies, purchase items, and then give cash to their respective police departments.

Because of their private nature, they are often less subject to public transparency laws, except for when they officially interact with a department.

"The GrayKey was purchased by the Police Foundation and donated to the lab," an official from the San Diego Police Department's Crime Laboratory wrote in a 2018 email to a contracting officer, referring to the iPhone unlocking technology GrayKey.

"The EULA I sent you [is] for a software upgrade that will allow us to get into the latest generation of Apple phones. Our original license was a 1 year license agreement paid for by the Police Foundation," the email adds. In a 2019 email, two other officials discussed purchasing the GrayKey for the following year.
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