{"id":12735,"date":"2014-03-09T22:40:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12735"},"modified":"2014-03-09T22:41:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:41:06","slug":"warrantless-cellphone-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12735","title":{"rendered":"Warrantless Cellphone Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The secretive technology is generically known as a stingray or IMSI catcher, but the Harris device is also specifically called the Stingray. When mobile phones \u2014 and other wireless communication devices like air cards \u2014 connect to the stingray, it can see and record their unique ID numbers and traffic data, as well as information that points to the device\u2019s location. By moving the stingray around, authorities can triangulate the device\u2019s location with much more precision than they can get through data obtained from a mobile network provider\u2019s fixed tower location.<br \/>\nThe government has long asserted that it doesn\u2019t need to obtain a probable-cause warrant to use the devices because they don\u2019t collect the content of phone calls and text messages but rather operate like pen-registers and trap-and-traces, collecting the equivalent of header information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2014\/03\/stingray\/\">Florida Cops&#8217; Secret Weapon: Warrantless Cellphone Tracking | Threat Level | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secretive technology is generically known as a stingray or IMSI catcher, but the Harris device is also specifically called the Stingray. When mobile phones \u2014 and other wireless communication devices like air cards \u2014 connect to the stingray, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12735\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[987,227,101],"class_list":["post-12735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-femtocells","tag-mobile","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12778,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions\/12778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}