{"id":6219,"date":"2011-11-03T05:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T05:02:15","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6219","title":{"rendered":"WSJ.com: &#8220;Feds Shift Tracking Defense&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204621904577014363024341028.html#ixzz1cdBiwvrs\">Feds Shift Tracking Defense \/ Prosecutors in Arizona Case Drop Position That &#8216;Stingray&#8217; Use Didn&#8217;t Require Warrant<\/a> by Jennifer Valentino-Devries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Department of Justice now says its use of a cellphone-tracking device in a controversial Arizona case could be considered a &#8220;search&#8221; under the Fourth Amendment, a tactical move legal experts say is designed to protect the secrecy of the gadgets known as &#8220;stingrays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more than a year, federal prosecutors have argued in U.S. District Court that the use of the stingray device\u2014which can locate a mobile phone even when it&#8217;s not being used to make a call\u2014wasn&#8217;t a search, in part because the user had no reasonable expectation of privacy while using Verizon Wireless cellphone service. Under that argument, authorities wouldn&#8217;t need to obtain a search warrant before using one of the devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}