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Thursday, August 28, 2014

FBI Ordered Police Department to Conceal Stingray Use

Police tell City Council device used to detect "IEDs"

Documents uncovered through a public records request reveal that a Wash. state police department has concealed its use of a Stringray cellphone surveillance device for the last 6 years.

The documents, uncovered by Phil Mocek of the Seattle Privacy Coalition and Center for Open Policing, detail the Tacoma Police Department’s 2008 purchase order. Partially funded by a DHS “port security” grant, the documents also included several invoices and contracts as well.

The device, which extracts countless cellphone user’s data by mimicking a cell tower, has caused alarm among civil liberties advocates in recent years.

“Warrantless surveillance presents great risk to our freedom,” Mocek told Infowars. “These devices are often used to spy on innocent people’s words, locations and associations.”

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey gotta be ready to issue the mark...we will be up your arse in a couple of years...see what we can find up there.??..keep cheering all you useful idiots

Anonymous said...

As long as it's still OK for me to use, whatever. Stingrays work best in the city, where there's more active lines... only drawback.