Feds side with Anaheim Police over secret stingray cell phone tracking

[The Sushi Bandit]

Source: Orange County Register

The U.S. Justice Department has sided squarely with the Anaheim Police Department in an ongoing civil liberties legal battle over clandestine cellphone-tracking technology that is increasingly being deployed by law enforcement agencies.

Federal prosecutors argue in a recent court filing that police in Orange County’s largest city properly withheld key details about the equipment from the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. The group has sought public release of records on the devices in an 18-month-long case pending in Superior Court.

At issue are extensive redactions made last year to a batch of documents provided to the ACLU. Those records involve devices, initially developed for intelligence agencies, that imitate cellphone towers and can trick mobile phones into connecting to them instead of to the towers.

Read more: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/anaheim-729315-aclu-law.html

[JonathanRackham]

1. God bless bigger brother and the police state.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. they set em up in parking lots at Phish shows and wait for someone to say "come smoke a bowl"

then they have the SWAT team ready to haul the bowl-smokers off to prison.

[Rex]

3. What easier and safer paycheck is there then busting non violent drug offenders all day long?

Cowards.

[dembotoz]

4. shocked i tell you shocked