Grits for Breakfast: “Bypassing the telecoms: ‘Stingrays’ allow direct government phone surveillance with little oversight” (link below):<\/p>\n
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The third panel at Yale Law School’s Location Tracking and Biometrics conference last weekend focused on so-called “Stingray” devices, which is a trade name for a fake cell-phone tower operated by police that tricks your phone into sending its signal to them instead of your cell-phone carrier. (Go here to see the video; the panel on Stingrays begins at the 6:01:28 mark.) The panel was moderated by Jennifer Valentino-Devries, a reporter from the Wall Street Journal who has written extensively about the devices and who I was pleased to learn is a transplanted Texan from Plainview and a fellow Daily Texan alum. (See her initial WSJ story, and followups here and here, from which Grits first learned about the technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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