ACLU Files Motion Against Tallahassee Police for Using Cell Tower Imposters

Stingrays, a device that impersonates a cell phone tower and collects data from nearby cell phones, have been used by law enforcement agencies a lot recently and the American Civil Liberties Union is now filing a motion against Tallahassee, Florida Police for using this technology.  “Potentially unconstitutional government surveillance on this scale should not remain hidden from the public just because a private corporation desires secrecy. And it certainly should not be concealed from judges. That’s why we have asked the Florida court that originally sealed the transcript to now make it available to the public. And that’s also why we have asked police departments throughout Florida to tell us whether they use stingrays, what rules they have in place to protect innocent third parties from unjustified invasions of privacy, and whether they obtain warrants from judges before deploying the devices,” Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney at the ACLU Speech, Privacy, & Technology Project, explained on the organization’s blog.