With smartphone storage expanding into terabytes and penetration in the United States exceeding 92%*, law enforcement now faces not only an overwhelming amount of data but also the challenge of deciphering it, uncovering crucial evidence and drawing significant connections. These demands are pushing traditional methods and manual analysis—which are already time-consuming and labor-intensive—to their breaking point. “[Pathfinder] was the only way they could do it. They all said there’s no way they could have physically done any of that leg work with individual UFDRs. So much data, so little time is what I called it,” Det. Ballard recalls. Read the full success story here: