{"id":22270,"date":"2016-05-23T10:20:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22270"},"modified":"2016-05-23T10:20:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:20:05","slug":"new-american-illinois-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-ban-on-unwarranted-stingray-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22270","title":{"rendered":"New American: Illinois Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Ban on Unwarranted Stingray Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New American: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/item\/23236-illinois-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-ban-on-unwarranted-stingray-surveillance\">Illinois Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Ban on Unwarranted Stingray Surveillance<\/a> by Joe Wolverton:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On May 18, the state legislature of Illinois passed a bill all but absolutely banning the warrantless deployment of Stingray cellphone surveillance devices in the Land of Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>The text of Senate Bill 2343 mandates that \u201ca court order based on probable cause that a person whose location information is sought has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime, is required for any permitted use\u201d of a Stingray or similar tracking tool.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably in this era of nearly unrestrained growth of the American surveillance state, both chambers of the Illinois state legislative branch passed the measure unanimously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New American: Illinois Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Ban on Unwarranted Stingray Surveillance by Joe Wolverton:<\/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-22270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs-sim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270","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=22270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22271,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions\/22271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}