02/23/16 – By Brad Heath WASHINGTON — Federal marshals have secretly used powerful cellphone surveillance tools to hunt nearly 6,000 suspects throughout the United States, according to newly-disclosed records in which the agency inadvertently identified itself as the nation’s most prolific known user of phone-tracking devices. [Read More]
ACLU Releases Florida StingRay Documents – Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
The American Civil Liberties Union released records on Feb. 22 that start to reveal the scope of secret cell phone surveillance by law enforcement agencies in Florida. Cell site simulators, known as StingRay, have become increasingly popular among Florida law enforcement agencies. The technology fools a cell phone into thinking it is communicating with a service […]
States try to rein in police cellphone spying – Tallahassee Democrat
Yet the feds, invoking terror concerns, push to hide public records Nine states this year have placed new legal limits on police cellphone surveillance after revelations that law enforcement agencies across the country are gathering data of thousands of people at once, often without warrants or regard to whether the subjects are targets of criminal […]
