Gareth Davies is a co-opted member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) representing the UK working on FORMOBILE, a EU project, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme.
It involves a consortium of partners, working in collaboration to create an end-to-end mobile forensic investigation chain, striving to improve digital safety, and security in the EU while respecting fundamental rights.
A result of the project will be a standardised European process for the forensic investigation of mobile phones.
It is also an aim for the new FORMOBILE standard to become a European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), Workshop Agreement (CWA).
CWAs are frequently the forerunner of ENs and ISO standards. The objective is to collect the best practices and common working methods - combining them to an agreed standard, which is to be adopted by the relevant stakeholders across Europe.
The standard will also consider fundamental frights, contributing to EU efforts in protecting and promoting human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
Utilisation of a common, pan-European standard will allow LEAs and other related associations to increase efficiency and efficacy when dealing with mobile device-related crime.