{"id":6256,"date":"2017-09-24T02:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T02:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/?page_id=6256"},"modified":"2017-09-24T02:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T02:59:18","slug":"9-21-2017-court-rules-use-of-stingray-to-track-people-without-a-without-a-warrant-violates-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/?page_id=6256","title":{"rendered":"9-21-2017: Court rules use of Stingray to track people without a without a warrant violates Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EnGadget, “Court rules Stingray use without a warrant violates Fourth Amendment<\/a>” by Mallory Locklear<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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      Today, the Washington DC Court of Appeals overturned a Superior Court conviction of a man who was located by police using a cell-site simulator, or Stingray, CBS News<\/em><\/a> reports. The court ruled that the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when law enforcement tracked down the suspect using his own cell phone without a warrant.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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      Stingrays work by pretending to be a cell tower and once they’re brought close enough to a particular phone, that phone pings a signal off of them. The Stingray then grabs onto that signal and allows whoever’s using it to locate the phone in question. These sorts of devices are used by a number of different agencies including the FBI<\/a>, ICE<\/a>, the IRS<\/a> as well as police<\/a>officers<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

      The use of cell-site simulators, especially without a warrant, has come under question a few times in recent years. In 2016, a federal judge suppressed DEA evidence<\/a> obtained via such a device, the first time a federal judge had done so. Last year, members of Congress called for legislation<\/a> that would protect citizens’ privacy and require a warrant before Stingrays could be used by law enforcement. Two such bills<\/a> were introduced in the House of Representatives earlier this year.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

      In the ruling, the judges said<\/a>, “We thus conclude that under ordinary circumstances, the use of a cell-site simulator to locate a person through his or her cellphone invades the person’s actual, legitimate, and reasonable expectation of privacy in his or her location information and is a search.” They also said, “We agree with [the defendant] that the government violated the Fourth Amendment when it deployed the cell-site simulator against him without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause.”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

     The ruling could affect ongoing and future cases as well as law enforcement’s use of the technology.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Article #1: EnGadget, “Court rules Stingray use without a warrant violates Fourth Amendment” by Mallory Locklear Excerpts:       Today, the Washington DC Court of Appeals overturned a Superior Court conviction of a man who was located by police using a cell-site simulator, or Stingray, CBS News reports. The court ruled that the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights … Continue reading 9-21-2017: Court rules use of Stingray to track people without a without a warrant violates Fourth Amendment<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5067,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6256","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6259,"href":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6256\/revisions\/6259"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standingrockclassaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}