Stingray - How Cops Hack Your Phone

 

Police agencies around the United States are using a powerful surveillance tool to mimic cell phone signals to tap into the cellular phones of unsuspecting citizens, track the physical locations of those phones, and perhaps even intercept the content of their communications. The device is known as a Stingray, and it is being used in at least 23 states and the District of Columbia. Originally designed for use on the foreign battlefields of the War on Terror, "cell-site simulator" devices have found a home in the arsenals of dozens of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

In an article published yesterday (November 22, 2017), Isabella McKinley Corbo discusses "How cops hack into your phone without a warrant" and the upcoming US Supreme Court case involving Timothy Carpenter. At the end of November, however, Carpenter’s lawyers will argue in front of the Supreme Court that the FBI violated his Constitutional rights by searching his cell phone’s location data without a warrant. His case could change how law enforcement goes about finding and using information on Americans’ cell phones.