These devices are not only being used across the Bay area, but according to the ACLU, the following agencies in California either have a Stingray or have received funding to acquire one:>Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, Fremont Police Department, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Oakland Police Department, Sacramento Sheriff’s Department, San Diego Police Department, San Francisco Police Department, San José Police Department.
The ACLU sent out public records requests to 36 state and local Florida law enforcement agencies after discovering that Tallahassee Police Department argued in court to permanently seal court records discussing its Stingray use. The police dept. in Sunrise, FL has already acknowledged having a Stringray.
¨…Florida Department of Law Enforcement (the state police) released heavily redacted records revealing that the agency has spent more than $3 million on Stingrays, that it has signedagreementswith a number of local and regional law enforcement agencies allowing them to use the FDLE’s devices, and that it has asked local agencies to sign non-disclosure agreements,¨according to one ACLU report.
We don´t know how many local and state law enforcement agencies across the country actually have these devices because their use is completely unregulated and agencies have remained very secretive .
what are they going to convict me of atempted murder? over a phone call of which i could be joking around with someone
The “they” would be twelve in a jury. And “they” would be the twelve morons who aren’t bright enough to elude jury duty. So yes, those 12 clowns could decide to on conviction if they thought you were serious, or if they just want to get done and go home in time for the next episode of the Kardashians.
this device kicks the victem off the internet ,heats up their device and renders it effectively usless, this being the case vit negates the device functions.Insomuch…it renders the victem without the use of its’ funtion as a buisiness tool,negating monies through the right to gainfull lawfull endeavor….$.It alkso negates the device itself by heating its temp by over heating and over usage of cpu.It also runs the victems battery down in a fraction of the normal usage,thereby rendering its usage ,perhaps as an emergancy call if needed it couldn’t ….the idiot ran the battery down!Invasion of privacy is a whimsical falicy in U.S….it doesn’t exist!What privacy were you thinking of?My feeling are these…..you must not cause harm…you should noit negate a devices use without lawful mitigatingh reason…even then …negating a devices intended function is unlawful…as no lawman can cause harm…it defeats his purpose and makes his activities subject to indictable lawful prosecution!Not to mention negating ability to conduct buisiness via on line communication,or suppose vthere was an emergancy situation and the retarded police man negated the phones use byb draining its’ battery life….that policeman there by rendered the ciutizen without emergancy response…..in short when you break the law to uphold law you become a criminal!
What!? Technology is not ‘mystical magic’. A device like this does not somehow microwave your phone. It cannot remotely heat up your device, nor cause excess battery usage, nor cause additional software to run on the device unwarranted, nor rearrange your living room furniture. It’s simply a device that exists to offload the processes that exist on normal cellphone towers. Police can already access cell tower information, legally, and use that information to track users(including triangulating their positions). A device such as the Stingray merely facilitates this process with specific goals so as to offload & localize cell tower usage. Hospitals often provide local/private cell towers, as do some hotels and apartment buildings. A home user can also have a private cell tower. A device such as the Stingray is basically the same thing with ease of access to the information which travels through it. Hack a cell tower or 10 and you’ll realize that none of this is new. Frankly, I find it wildly humorous that people have been spending so much money on something that’s relatively simple. Too bad I didn’t think of it first.
law must be without reproach as all law is at the end of the day ,in place to be determined by reason …either reasonable or unreasonable….get it together boys…..
Those of you who say “who cares? I dont say anything to be worried about” are missing the point. We have laws that protect our rights to privacy, due process and free speech. Unwarranted, unchecked and lawless police action should be stopped.
Not worrying about an infringement on your rights because you “have nothing to hide” enables them to encroach further and weakens our constitutional republic.
In addition, they torment, steal and ruin your life just for fun; however its not police doig it.
HOUSE ARREST NORMALLY ON COURT ORDERS BUT IT HAPPEN IN DIFFERENT FORM WITHOUT COURT ORDER IN AMERICA?
LIKE NSA CHECK OF CELL PHONES AND EMAILS DESPITE OF SENATE MAJORITY REGRET WITH 62 TO 37 PRESIDENT WANT TO CONTINUE SO BOTH REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT BUSH AND PRESIDENT OBAMA DID NOT CARE OF PRIVACY OF INDIVIDUAL AMERICAN OR FOREIGN COUNTIES JUST USING POWER OF HAMMER?
LIKEWISE OTHER SECRET AGENCIES IN SEARCH ON THEIR BUT MOST BITTER IS LOCAL COPS ON CHECK OF HOUSES FOR THEIR SECRET CLUES TO CLICK OR CATCH CRIMINALS? BUT DID AMERICAN ALL HOUSES ARE NOT IN HANDS OF IRON FIST ILLEGALLY?
Police wonder why many people do not trust them or respect them anymore. Things like this are part of the reason. The police are spying on the public and violating their rights. Police want us to respect them and then you hear about something like this which shows the police do not respect the public. No respect for privacy or the rights of the people. Respect is a 2 way street. If police want respect from the public stop doing things like listening into our private phone calls.
HELL YEAH YOU SAID IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I’m being listened to. How do I find out?