{"id":10521,"date":"2014-03-11T23:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T23:01:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T23:01:50","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10521","title":{"rendered":"Wired.com: Florida Cops\u2019 Secret Weapon: Warrantless Cellphone Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2014\/03\/stingray\/\">Florida Cops\u2019 Secret Weapon: Warrantless Cellphone Tracking<\/a> by Kim Zetter:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police in Florida have offered a startling excuse for having used a controversial \u201cstingray\u201d cellphone tracking gadget 200 times without ever telling a judge: the device\u2019s manufacturer made them sign a non-disclosure agreement that they say prevented them from telling the courts.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking revelation came during an appeal over a 2008 sexual battery case in Tallahassee in which the suspect also stole the victim\u2019s cellphone. Using the stingray \u2014 which simulates a cellphone tower in order to trick nearby mobile devices into connecting to it and revealing their location \u2014 police were able to track him to an apartment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Dana Carvey&#8217;s Church Lady would say: &#8220;How convenient.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}