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Story summary
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) extracted deleted Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone during a Texas trial related to vandalism and a police shooting at ICE Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado.
- Testimony showed the messages were saved in the device's push notification database.
- The case demonstrates forensic extraction techniques can retrieve data from secure messaging apps.
- Signal has a feature that prevents message content from appearing in push notifications.
