{"id":14130,"date":"2014-11-11T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14130"},"modified":"2014-11-11T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T15:04:50","slug":"slate-stingrays-not-just-for-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14130","title":{"rendered":"Slate: Stingrays: Not Just for Feds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2014\/11\/stingrays_imsi_catchers_how_local_law_enforcement_uses_an_invasive_surveillance.html\">Stingrays: Not Just for Feds!<\/a> by Kate Klonick:<\/p>\n<p>How local law enforcement uses an invasive, unreliable surveillance tool.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From Ferguson to Senate hearings, the news of local police arming themselves with federal-grade equipment\u2014tanks, riot gear, M16 rifles\u2014has captivated everyone from civil libertarians to lawmakers. But in the national debate surrounding police militarization, the most effective weapons may have been overlooked: Beyond arming themselves like the federal government, local police are also spying on you like the federal government\u2014using sophisticated surveillance technology without warrants.<\/p>\n<p>One of the tools making it possible for Chief Wiggum to gather all your deets is known colloquially as a Stingray, a portable gadget about the size of a box of doughnuts. They\u2019re also known as \u201ccell-site simulators,\u201d because, well, that\u2019s exactly what they do: A Stingray mimics a cellphone tower and forces all nearby mobile phones or devices to connect to it. Every phone that connects to the Stingray reports its number, GPS location, and the numbers of all outgoing calls and texts. That\u2019s every location and outgoing call and text log of every phone within a certain radius\u2014up to several kilometers\u2014of the Stingray, and that\u2019s all without a warrant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: Stingrays: Not Just for Feds! by Kate Klonick: How local law enforcement uses an invasive, unreliable surveillance tool. From Ferguson to Senate hearings, the news of local police arming themselves with federal-grade equipment\u2014tanks, riot gear, M16 rifles\u2014has captivated everyone &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14131,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions\/14131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}