{"id":30349,"date":"2017-11-26T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T21:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30349"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T21:45:30","slug":"ap-via-abc-does-cellphone-sweeping-stingray-technology-go-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30349","title":{"rendered":"AP (via ABC): Does cellphone-sweeping &#8216;StingRay&#8217; technology go too far?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP (via ABc): <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/cellphone-sweeping-stingray-technology-51377790\">Does cellphone-sweeping &#8216;StingRay&#8217; technology go too far?<\/a> by Colleen Long:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas are among scores of police departments across the country quietly using a highly secretive technology developed for the military that can track the whereabouts of suspects by using the signals constantly emitted by their cellphones.<\/p>\n<p>Civil liberties and privacy groups are increasingly raising objections to the suitcase-sized devices known as StingRays or cell site simulators that can sweep up cellphone data from an entire neighborhood by mimicking cell towers. Police can determine the location of a phone without the user even making a call or sending a text message. Some versions of the technology can even intercept texts and calls, or pull information stored on the phones.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem, privacy experts say, is the devices can also collect data from anyone within a small radius of the person being tracked. And law enforcement goes to great lengths to conceal usage, in some cases, offering plea deals rather than divulging details on the StingRay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP (via ABc): Does cellphone-sweeping &#8216;StingRay&#8217; technology go too far? by Colleen Long:<\/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-30349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cs-sim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349","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=30349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30351,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349\/revisions\/30351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}