{"id":20821,"date":"2016-02-18T21:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20821"},"modified":"2016-02-19T03:47:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T08:47:52","slug":"wttw-lawmakers-want-to-limit-police-use-of-stingray-cellphone-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20821","title":{"rendered":"WTTW: Lawmakers Want to Limit Police Use of Stingray Cellphone Trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WTTW: <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagotonight.wttw.com\/2016\/02\/18\/lawmakers-want-limit-police-use-stingray-cellphone-trackers\">Lawmakers Want to Limit Police Use of Stingray Cellphone Trackers<\/a> by Paris Schutz:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Law enforcement agencies on Thursday met with Illinois lawmakers about legislation that would limit the use of new technology that tracks cell phone use.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The device, called a Stingray, has purportedly been used for surveillance by the Chicago Police Department during protests and rallies, but the department has been secretive about exactly how extensively its used. It has raised questions about invasion of privacy that civil libertarians and lawmakers are trying to answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStingrays\u201d are small devices that mimic cellphone towers. They are typically carried in police vehicles that have antenna that attract every cellphone signal in the area. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTTW: Lawmakers Want to Limit Police Use of Stingray Cellphone Trackers by Paris Schutz: Law enforcement agencies on Thursday met with Illinois lawmakers about legislation that would limit the use of new technology that tracks cell phone use.<\/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-20821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs-sim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821","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=20821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20835,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821\/revisions\/20835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}