Stand By For Action

at

stingray-700x845-640x772

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department has admitted it possesses and uses a controversial cellphone surveillance tool currently at the center of several legal debates across the country. The acknowledgement comes months after an investigative report filed by Sacramento television station KXTV that revealed several law enforcement agencies throughout California had purchased or possessed a cellphone surveillance tool called a “Stingray”.

Sound familiar?

Sacramento Sheriff’s Department Admits Using Stingray Spy Tool (Matthew Keys, The Blot)

Any excuse.

Pic: Extremetech

Previously: Same Sheet Different Day

Put A GSOC In It

“We Are Independent”

‘They’ve Done Their Damndest To Cover Up’

Sponsored Link

12 thoughts on “Stand By For Action

    1. bruce01

      I would be interested to hear the proposals about this too. This is a different technology to the one used in the GSOC bugging/other ‘scandal’. “Any excuse” to make spurious claims?

      1. Stash

        “This is a different technology to the one used in the GSOC bugging/other ‘scandal’. ”

        Same technology, different application.

      2. zynks

        In fairness, this could explain why the consultants found a “foreign” operator’s cell in the neighborhood of the GSOC…

    2. Stash

      The use of the devices (especially in the US) has largely been kept secret from the court system and especially from the public.

      From wikipedia – “In 2014, police in Florida revealed they had used such devices at least 200 additional times since 2010 without disclosing it to the courts or obtaining a warrant”

      There is also anecdotal evidence that one was in use on Abbey Street not that long ago.

      1. Westbrit

        “Anecdotal evidence” in other words no evidence that would stand up to any kind of scrutiny. The perfect type of evidence for all the conspiracy theorists that are on here.

    1. Parky Mark

      For what? Not for work anyway as it’s not applicable at all.
      TV Licence just use the voting register and door to door calls.

  1. Mr. Magoo

    they can get this information from the cell towers with a warrant too, you can triangulate signal strength to a meter or two of three cell towers, calls and messages received or sent are timestamped too as a murderous dublin bus driver found out.
    the whole point of this stingray tech is to get around the pesky requirement of a warrant!

    1. Mr. Magoo

      that should say:
      you can trianglulate (GSM, nothing fancy) the position of a phone from the signal strength it has to three cell towers down to a meter of two accurately, but you need a warrant most places to get it.

Comments are closed.

Sponsored Link
Broadsheet.ie