Emergency Digital Evidence Preservation

Prompt preservation support when devices, accounts, video, messages, or logs may be lost, overwritten, altered, or remotely changed.

When to call

  • Impending device replacement or reset

  • Departing employee or expiring surveillance video

  • Threatened account deletion or remote-wipe risk

  • Changing cloud data, a litigation hold, accident, or incident

  • Compromised account, probate or deceased-person data

  • Urgent court deadlines

Immediate precautions

  • Stop ordinary use when appropriate. Do not reset or update devices.

  • Do not install recovery tools or forward or resave native evidence unnecessarily.

  • Preserve chargers and lawfully available credentials.

  • Document custody and contact counsel or AMR before altering the source.

What AMR may preserve

Mobile devices, computers, tablets, removable media, cloud or provider exports, messages, email, photographs and video, metadata, GPS and location artifacts, vehicle data, drone records, account-security records, and forensic productions.

Process

  1. Confidential scoping and lawful authority confirmation

  2. Chain-of-custody documentation and appropriate acquisition

  3. Hashing or integrity documentation where applicable

  4. Secure retention, targeted analysis, and reporting only as authorized

Limitations

Preservation cannot guarantee recovery. Availability depends on retention, encryption, damage, access, synchronization, overwriting, and technical feasibility. AMR does not provide legal advice or bypass lawful authorization.

Related services

Mobile forensics
Computer forensics
Data recovery
eDiscovery
Audio and video forensics
Automotive forensics
Litigation support

Urgent contact

For time-sensitive evidence risks, contact AMR Digital Forensics before altering the source.