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Use of the spy technology goes back at least 20 years. When devices connect, stingrays can see and record their unique ID numbers and traffic data, as well as information that points to the device’s location.īy moving the stingray around and gathering the wireless device’s signal strength from various locations in a neighborhood, authorities can pinpoint where the device is being used with much more precision than they can get through data obtained from a mobile network provider’s fixed tower location. The secretive technology, generically known as a stingray or IMSI catcher, allows law enforcement agents to spoof a legitimate cell tower in order to trick nearby mobile phones and other wireless communication devices like air cards into connecting to the stingray instead of a phone carrier’s legitimate tower.
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This is reconfiguring and changing the characteristics of the property, without informing the judge what’s going on." "This is more than just give us some records that you have sitting on your server. "It shows you just how crazy the technology is, and all the more the need to explain to the court what they are doing," says EFF Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, who have filed an amicus brief in support of Rigmaiden's motion, maintain that the order does not qualify as a warrant and that the government withheld crucial information from the magistrate - such as identifying that the tracking device they planned to use was a stingray and that its use involved intrusive measures - thus preventing the court from properly fulfilling its oversight function. The government has conceded, however, that it needed a warrant in his case alone - because the stingray reached into his apartment remotely to locate the air card - and that the activities performed by Verizon and the FBI to locate Rigmaiden were all authorized by a court order signed by a magistrate. The government has long asserted that it doesn't need to obtain a probable-cause warrant to use the devices because they don't collect the content of phone calls and text messages and operate like pen-registers and trap-and-traces, collecting the equivalent of header information.