{
  "id": 13424,
  "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/07/24/smartphones-south-africas-corruption-probe",
  "title": "South Africa’s most important crime witness isn’t human. It’s a smartphone.",
  "summary": "Every WhatsApp conversation, location ping, cloud backup and piece of metadata can help investigators reconstruct relationships that might once have remained hidden.",
  "authors": "Phathisani Moyo",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "africa",
  "published_at": "2026-07-24T06:56:29.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "x-techcabal-africa",
  "source_name": "TechCabal (Africa)",
  "source_homepage": "https://techcabal.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13424",
  "original_url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/07/24/smartphones-south-africas-corruption-probe",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}