… Earlier this week the American Civil Liberties Union revealed a trove of documents it had obtained through Freedom of Information Requests to more than 200 police departments around the country. They show a pattern of police tracking cell phone locations and gathering other data like call logs without warrants, using devices that impersonate cell towers to [...]
Privacy concerns have been raised after it emerged that the Met Police may have acquired mobile phone monitoring software. The London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has reportedly acquired surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone cell tower. This, according to the Guardiannewspaper, has given the police the ability to intercept mobile phone calls and [...]
By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Law enforcement and military officials are increasingly using secret devices sometimes called “stingrays” to locate people via their cellphones, even when the phones aren’t in use, the Wall Street Journal reported recently. But finding people isn’t all that this type of gear can do. These types of machines mimic a cell tower and [...]
… Recent events in the Middle East offer cases in point. In early March angry Egyptian crowds stormed into the buildings of the country’s secret police in a last-minute attempt to preserve documents that were about to be destroyed by departed President Hosni Mubarak’s cronies. There, amid shredded files, activists found transcripts of their own [...]
