The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says court warrants are not required when deploying cell-site simulators (nicknamed “stingrays”) in public places. Stingrays are decoy cell towers, often deployed on small aircraft that capture locations and identities of tens of thousands of mobile phone users in a single flight and can intercept calls and texts. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have expressed concern about privacy to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.
The Obama Administration has maintained that the public has no privacy in public places. But the Supreme Court ruled that warrants are required.
In their letter, Leahy and Grassley complained that little is known about how stingrays are used by law enforcement agencies. And authorities are reluctant to disclose that. In one case, prosecutors dropped charges rather than disclose their techniques. In other cases authorities simply lie to judges about their use or use underhanded methods to prevent the public from knowing that the cell-site simulators are being used.
“The Judiciary Committee needs a broader understanding of the full range of law enforcement agencies that use this technology, the policies in place to protect the privacy interests of those whose information might be collected using these devices, and the legal process that DOJ and DHS entities seek prior to using them,” wrote Leahy and Grassley. Some U.S. states are fighting back. Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin passed laws requiring police to get a warrant to track a cell phone in real time. Some courts, such as in Florida and Massachusetts, also ruled that warrants are necessary for real-time tracking.
Surveillance is a key element of totalitarian regimes. Expect increasingly intrusive and even deceptive practices to track thousands of citizens in their every day life. Surveillance is intimidating, and will be used to support globalization and its eventually enforcement of a world-wide religion and worship.
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Gregory Gwozdz
Wednesday February 4th, 2015 at 08:04 PMCIA and FBI, NSA are all but matzi style Vatican terror inforsment organization . They were created to destroy USA constitution and inslave people in the USA and around the world
Lord God still in the end will be victorious and His people at tast free from satanic instrumentaltites of oppression and terror
Prais His hiolly name
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Thursday February 5th, 2015 at 10:03 PMCan you provide documentation of your statement about the CIA, FBI and the NSA? It may be true, but we would like to be able to document that? If you cannot, it is probably better not to say it. Surveillance has always been an aim of totalitarian and socialist regimes (whether they have the capability to carry it out or not). Socialism and many of its varied forms, but particularly Gramsci socialism, is in line with Vatican ideology. No doubt it is easier to manipulate on the global stage. And no doubt, that Vatican uses socialist governments and leaders to its own ends to the best of its ability. The Vatican is very prescient in her understanding that the future belongs to socialism. And through it, she can manipulate the masses, and therefore their governments, in support of her agenda. These points can and have been documented in various ways. If you have evidence of your statement, we’d be interested to have it. -Pastor Mayer