{"id":37585,"date":"2019-05-09T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37585"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:15:55","slug":"shawdowproof-detroit-police-spent-more-than-half-million-dollars-on-cell-site-simulator-to-track-peoples-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37585","title":{"rendered":"Shawdowproof: Detroit Police Spent More than Half Million Dollars on Cell-site Simulator to Track People\u2019s Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shawdowproof: <a href=\"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/2019\/05\/08\/detroit-police-spent-more-than-half-million-dollars-on-cell-site-simulator-to-track-peoples-locations\/\">Detroit Police Spent More than Half Million Dollars on Cell-site Simulator to Track People\u2019s Locations<\/a> by Camille Fassett:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Detroit police purchased surveillance technology that allows police to actively track people\u2019s locations through their cell phones, according to documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2017, the Detroit Police Department (DPD) obtained a cell-site simulator, which is a type of surveillance technology that locates and tracks phones by mimicking cell phone towers. Also known as IMSI catchers and Stingrays (a specific model of cell-site simulator made by Harris Corporation), cell-site simulators are increasingly used by law enforcement to locate suspects in investigations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The technology was purchased for $622,000 from KeyW Corporation in 2016, but DPD did not take possession of the equipment until the fall of 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawdowproof: Detroit Police Spent More than Half Million Dollars on Cell-site Simulator to Track People\u2019s Locations by Camille Fassett:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs-sim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37585","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37586,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37585\/revisions\/37586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}