{"id":14169,"date":"2014-11-14T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14169"},"modified":"2014-11-14T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T18:43:50","slug":"airborne-stringray-ap-from-wsj-report-planes-used-to-gather-cellphone-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14169","title":{"rendered":"Airborne stringray: AP from WSJ: Report: Planes used to gather cellphone data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP from WSJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/2014\/11\/13\/report-planes-used-to-gather-cellphone-data\/20993526\/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl12%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D563423\">Report: Planes used to gather cellphone data<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The Justice Department is collecting data from thousands of cellphones through high-tech gear deployed on airplanes that mimics communications towers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said the hunt for information about criminal suspects is also collecting data from many innocent Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Citing sources familiar with the operations, the newspaper said the U.S. Marshal&#8217;s Service program, which became fully operational in 2007, operates Cessna aircraft from at least five metropolitan-area airports to collect the data. The airports were not identified in the Journal story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-marshals-service-reportedly-gathering-phone-data-through-airborne-surveillance\/2014\/11\/13\/d1a863d6-6b8b-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html\">U.S. Marshals Service reportedly gathering phone data through airborne surveillance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP from WSJ: Report: Planes used to gather cellphone data WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The Justice Department is collecting data from thousands of cellphones through high-tech gear deployed on airplanes that mimics communications towers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14169\">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-14169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169","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=14169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14172,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions\/14172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}