Baltimore has a stingray

Chris0nllyn

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The Baltimore Police Department has used an invasive and controversial cellphone tracking device thousands of times in recent years while following instructions from the FBI to withhold information about it from prosecutors and judges, a detective revealed in court testimony Wednesday.

The testimony shows for the first time how frequently city police are using a cell site simulator, more commonly known as a "stingray," a technology that authorities have gone to great lengths to avoid disclosing.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ma...d-ci-stingray-case-20150408-story.html#page=1
 

b23hqb

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Very interesting, and nice to know that the po-po will only use it to target a specific phone and never, ever use it is a tool in a "just fishing" sweep of an area full of innocent until nabbed people.:sarcasm:
 

StadEMS3

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You'd be surprised at what can be monitored and for how long the data is stored. Big brother is always watching and listening. :)
 

Hijinx

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Drones, secret cell phone trackers,, Radar that can see into your home.Computers on your car that can track you, and Northstar that can listen to you speaking in that car,
Camera's that can give you a ticket for speeding or running a stop sign. Monitors on city streets, Your computer tracked, and they can turn on a laptop's camera and watch you on it.Smart meters that can tell who is using energy.

Privacy??? What is that.? They can listen to you through your cell phone any time they wish whether you are using it or not.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/spies-can-listen-your-iphone-3670347
 

PeoplesElbow

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What i want to know is how many peoples stolen phones have been recovered with it as the article states it can be used for.
 

GURPS

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What i want to know is how many peoples stolen phones have been recovered with it as the article states it can be used for.



there is a priority for Balt O Po PO ... stolen iPhone's


the whole thing stinks .... if the Manufacturer, the FEDS and LEOS have to sneak around with NDA, and suppress evidence of the devices use by dropping cases ...

they are doing something wrong
 
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DynaDink

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Drones, secret cell phone trackers,, Radar that can see into your home.Computers on your car that can track you, and Northstar that can listen to you speaking in that car,
Camera's that can give you a ticket for speeding or running a stop sign. Monitors on city streets, Your computer tracked, and they can turn on a laptop's camera and watch you on it.Smart meters that can tell who is using energy.

Privacy??? What is that.? They can listen to you through your cell phone any time they wish whether you are using it or not.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/spies-can-listen-your-iphone-3670347

OnStar, Northstar is a GM engine
 

GURPS

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FBI Chooses Secrecy Over Locking Up Criminals




In Baltimore, 2,000 convictions may be overturned because of evidence that the police and the FBI purposefully withheld and then lied about the capabilities of the technology.

And last week, a city judge in Baltimore reluctantly tossed out key murder evidence gathered with the use of a cell site simulator because the police, who had been concealing use of the device as part of a nondisclosure agreement with the FBI, used it without getting a search warrant. She called it an “unconstitutional search.”

Journalists have also reported on cases in New York and Florida where the FBI instructed prosecutors to offer a deal or drop the case entirely to hide details about the technology. In Milwaukee, the FBI simply tried to hide its use entirely from the record.

At least 20 local agencies have signed non-disclosure agreements when they purchased Stingrays, according to privacy advocate Mike Katz-Lacabe, who keeps track. The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have chronicled federal and local law enforcement use of Stingrays in at least 23 states.
 
At least 20 local agencies have signed non-disclosure agreements when they purchased Stingrays, according to privacy advocate Mike Katz-Lacabe, who keeps track.

That's funny. Keeping track of something that they themselves don't want tracked.
 

LightRoasted

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If I may ...
What i want to know is how many peoples stolen phones have been recovered with it as the article states it can be used for.
That is classified information. It is therefor none of your business.
I would bet, and conduct my self accordingly, that all police departments and sheriffs offices have these. I would also bet, that these are stationed, since they are very portable, at every outdoor concert/event from Solomons to DC and beyond.
I don't trust anyone in "law enforcement" period. They have shown too many times that they cannot be trusted.
 
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