{"id":133479,"date":"2014-07-25T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T22:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=133479"},"modified":"2014-07-25T22:17:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T22:17:46","slug":"court-approves-warrantless-use-police-anti-terror-phone-tracking-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/court-approves-warrantless-use-police-anti-terror-phone-tracking-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Approves Warrantless Use Of Police Anti-Terror Phone-Tracking Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">A state supreme court has just approved the use of a special police counterterrorism phone tracking device without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The Supreme Court of Wisconsin on Thursday\u00a0<a class=\"external\" style=\"color: #832921;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.html?content=html&amp;seqNo=117932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">released a decision retroactively approving<\/a>\u00a0Milwaukee police\u2019 warrantless use of \u201cstingray\u201d tech \u2013 which allows police to intercept names, phone numbers, locations, call records, text messages and other private cellphone data \u2013 to locate a murder suspect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"external\" style=\"color: #832921;\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2014\/07\/court-allows-use-of-stingray-cell-tracking-device-in-murder-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to an Ars Technica report<\/a>, the court justified its approval based on a \u201crelated judicial order that essentially served the same purpose,\u201d despite the lack of a specific warrant authorizing the device\u2019s use. That order approved \u201cthe installation and use of a trap and trace device or process,\u201d \u201cthe installation and use of a pen register device\/process,\u201d and \u201cthe release of subscriber information, incoming and outgoing call detail\u2026 and authorizing the identification of the physical location of a target cellular phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice Patience Roggensack wrote the 5-2 majority decision for the case, and said the given order could be suitably viewed as a search warrant based on probable cause.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect in question was apprehended in June 2009 after officers investigated a shooting that left one man dead and another wounded. Witnesses\u2019 description of the shooter matched surveillance camera footage of a man who, on the same day of the shooting, bought a prepaid mobile phone for a store called Mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/07\/25\/court-approves-warrantless-use-of-police-anti-terror-phone-tracking-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state supreme court has just approved the use of a special police counterterrorism phone tracking device without a warrant. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin on Thursday\u00a0released a decision retroactively approving\u00a0Milwaukee police\u2019 warrantless use of \u201cstingray\u201d tech \u2013 which allows police to intercept names, phone numbers, locations, call records, text messages and other private cellphone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133479","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=133479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}