Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has made startling new revelations about CSS or cell-site stimulators. These cell surveillance devices, better known as Stingray, are used to disrupt communications of cell phones, mostly of criminals and lawbreakers. However, Sen. Wyden asserts that the devices may impact other phones and potentially makes contacting emergency services like 911 […]
New York’s Erie County police department has revealed that it used Stingray spying tool for tracking users’ cellphone for 47 times without a warrant. The Erie County police department in New York has made it difficult for the New York Civil Liberties Union to provide records regarding the “Stingray”, a surveillance tool they use which […]
Last week we reported on the Overwatch service that pinpoints every fake cell tower spying and tracking your smartphone. Now we present an Android app known as SnoopSnitch that can track Stingray, the favorite smartphone tracking gear of the FBI and NSA. Stingrays or IMSI catchers are surveillance tools that are being widely used by the government. These tools pretend […]
A Supreme Court judge in Buffalo ordered the Sheriff Office at Erie Country to disclose secret information to public which was collected from the public through Stingray surveillance device including phone numbers and locations of New Yorkers. Apart from the utterly questionably legality and constitutionality of this sort of mass surveillance, it is the high level […]
Unsealed Document Exposes FBI – Bureau admits using Stingray Devices to Disrupt Phone Service. FBI’s Stingray secrecy has been compromised and exposed by an unsealed document, a pen register application from 2012. The sealed version of this document was acquired by the ACLU previously but a motion to reject the evidence entailed in the device brought […]
If by any chance, you have been into a local police department for filing a public request in order to know about how cell-site simulators function in your community, there are high chances that the FBI is already aware of it. And the FBI will try to conceal such information. These devices that have come […]