{"id":122681,"date":"2014-06-04T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=122681"},"modified":"2014-06-04T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:15:46","slug":"us-marshals-seize-surveillance-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-marshals-seize-surveillance-records\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marshals Seize Surveillance Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Hours before a scheduled meeting to surrender records to the American Civil Liberties Union about the use of controversial &#8220;stingray&#8221; cellphone tracking devices, Sarasota, Florida, police canceled the meeting, saying the U.S. Marshals had seized the records and they were no longer in police possession. Calling the move &#8220;<a style=\"color: #f37221;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/national-security-technology-and-liberty\/us-marshals-seize-local-cops-cell-phone-tracking-files\">blatant violations of open government laws<\/a>,&#8221; in the words of staff attorney Nathan Freed Wessler, the ACLU\u00a0<a style=\"color: #f37221;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/technology-and-liberty\/aclu-florida-v-city-sarasota-stingray-cell-phone-tracking\">promptly sued<\/a>, protesting the handoff of sensitive documents to the feds and seeking their return.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Also known as &#8220;IMSIcatchers,&#8221; stingray devices simulate cellphone towers and trick cellphones into connecting, revealing their location. They are frequently used by federal and local officials under old-fashioned &#8220;<a style=\"color: #f37221;\" href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/09\/fbi-phone-tracking-tool-more-intrusive-t\">trap and trace<\/a>&#8221; warrants which conceal the intrusive nature of the modern technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Law enforcement officials are often\u00a0<a style=\"color: #f37221;\" href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/lapd-cellphone-tracking-clarification-st\">cagey about the technology<\/a>, both in terms of its capabilities, and also the loose legal standards under which it is used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/04\/us-marshals-seize-fl-cops-surveillance-r?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours before a scheduled meeting to surrender records to the American Civil Liberties Union about the use of controversial &#8220;stingray&#8221; cellphone tracking devices, Sarasota, Florida, police canceled the meeting, saying the U.S. Marshals had seized the records and they were no longer in police possession. Calling the move &#8220;blatant violations of open government laws,&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-122681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-surveillance-big-brother"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}