Federal Appeals Court Rules “Stingray” Surveillance Does Not Require Warrant
By Derrick Broze On Tuesday a federal appeals court with jurisdiction in Virginia and Maryland ruled that police do not need a search warrant to…
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New York Police Departments Spend $550K On Stingrays; Rarely Obtain Court Orders for Use
By Kelli Sladick Two local New York law enforcement agencies spent over $550,000 purchasing and maintaining stingray devices to track the location of phones and…
Court Scolds Maryland Cops for Stingray Use, Issues Landmark Decision on Surveillance
By Lily Dane In what civil liberties and privacy advocates are calling a landmark decision, Maryland’s second-highest court has handed down the first appellate opinion…
Warrantless Stingray Surveillance Deemed Unconstitutional, Proving Cops are Breaking the Law
By Claire Bernish Thanks to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the warrantless use of cell-site simulators, known as Stingrays, is now considered a violation…
Records: U.S. Marshals Used Stingray Surveillance Nearly 6,000 Times
By Derrick Broze According to newly released records, the U.S. Marshals Service has used cellphone surveillance tools, sometimes known as Stingrays, on the phones of…
Activist Forces Chicago Police to Disclose Details on Stingray Cellphone Surveillance
By Derrick Broze In a rare victory against the secrecy that often shrouds state surveillance, a Cook County, Illinois judge has ordered the Chicago Police…
Legal Challenges Home in on Baltimore’s Shrouded Stingray Use
By Amanda Warren It is estimated that at least 42 law enforcement agencies across 17 states use controversial Stingray tracking and surveillance devices. Although they…
Victory! DOJ Forces Feds to Obtain Warrants to Spy on Cellphones with Stingray Surveillance
By Jay Syrompoulos After initially attempting to hide their use of the cell site simulator devices, commonly referred to as a Stingray, the U.S. Department…
Local Sheriff’s Dept. Used ‘Stingray’ Surveillance More than 300 Times Without a Warrant
By Derrick Broze Yet another police department has been revealed to have been using so-called “Stingray” cell phone surveillance tools without the use of a…
Were ‘Stingray’ Surveillance Planes Listening to Baltimore Protesters?
By Derrick Broze As the Surveillance State grows, protesters and activists are increasingly the subjects of scrutiny by law enforcement on the local, state, and…
The Secret Stingray Case You Need To Know About
By The Big Picture What is Stingray technology – how is it used – and why is everyone trying to keep it a secret? Shahid…
Use of secretive ‘Stingray’ FBI cell phone tracking tool ruled lawful by judge
rmuser/Flickr Madison Ruppert Activist Post Despite the fact that the FBI was accused of hiding information from judges when obtaining authorization for use of the…
Federal agents may have deceived judges in using secretive ‘Stingray’ cell phone tracking technology
Madison Ruppert Activist Post According to newly obtained documents, federal agents routinely used the secretive cell phone tracking technology known as “Stingray” while misleading judges…
When a Secretive Stingray Cell Phone Tracking “Warrant” Isn’t a Warrant
image source Hanni Fakhoury EFF An Arizona federal court this afternoon will be the battleground over the government’s use of a “Stingray” surveillance device in a…