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Judges Toss Out Stingray Evidence
After all the reports in recent years about governments tracking and reading users mobile phones, it’s become known for the first time that a judge has thrown out evidence obtained via the mobile interception technology known as Stingrays. The 14-page opinion comes from district judge William H. Pauley. While this…
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Stingrays Used to Block Calls in the UK
When it comes to the Stingray, the US has been up in arms over the devices that not only intercept your mobile phone’s calls and messages but can be used to record your very intimate and private messages. The reason for intercepting your technological secrets is normally classed as security,…
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Cops Use StingRay Phone Tracker Against $50 Chicken Wing Thief
Police officers in Maryland, US, used a controversial mobile (cell)phone-tracking system – billed as a tool for fighting terrorism – to track a man suspected of stealing $50-worth of chicken wings. The Annapolis police department used a StingRay to determine the location of a man suspected of the theft of…
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FBI Admits Use of Zero-Day Exploits and Stingrays
In a profile of Amy Hess, the FBI’s executive assistant director for science and technology and overseer of the bureau’s Operational Technology Division, conducted by the Washington Post in the wake of the San Bernardino shootings, the FBI executive openly admitted to the use of a number of techniques the…
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IRS Used Stingray To Track 37 Phones
Digital security is an issue that is raised weekly, with digital privacy seeming to be at odds, security or privacy. These topics come to a point when the topic of Stingray towers is brought up, mobile devices that mimic mobile phone towers. These devices can be used to intercept data…
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Judge Says Stingrays “Are Simply Too Powerful” Without Rules
Stingrays have become one of the most contested ways of digital surveillance since they became public knowledge last year. The devices act like mobile phone towers, simulating their actions while allowing them to intercept and identify the devices connecting to them. The problem many have seen with this device is…
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Fake Data-Collecting Mobile Towers Discovered in London
A joint investigation by Sky News and German security company GMSK Cryptophone has uncovered up to 20 fake mobile towers in London that are collecting user data from nearby mobile phones. The “towers” are effectively Stingray boxes – recently used illegally by police in the US to monitor citizens –…
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Public Record Request Reveals Stingray Used 303 Times Without Legal Reason
Digital privacy is a concept that is being contested with government monitoring. With section 215 of the Patriot act set for renewal in America, with reviews and discussions pushing the talks to the last possible minute, the concept of acquiring data illegally is almost considered taboo, or at least admitting…
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