It’s one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision.
Tag Archives: stingrays
US authorities now need warrant for your cellphone location data
Privacy activists scored a legal victory this week after the Supreme Court ruled it unlawful for law enforcement and federal agencies to access cellphone location records without a warrant.
Washington DC “awash” with fake cell towers
DHS has detected IMSI catchers that track phones and intercept calls
US law enforcement now needs a warrant to use stingrays
Federal law enforcement agencies will now require a warrant before they can deploy stingrays and other similar devices. Any data collected will also have to be deleted post haste.
Stingrays used to track petty crime
Baltimore revealed that it’s used stingrays 4300 times, and now we know most of that is on the level of check forgery and phone theft.
Stingray-like phone spying machine used to blackmail and rig state tenders
A South African official is suspected of forging a document to allow a businessman to illegally/allegedly buy the pricey device.