{"id":158603,"date":"2015-06-11T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T09:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=158603"},"modified":"2015-06-11T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T09:50:40","slug":"revealed-fake-phone-towers-covertly-spy-british-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/revealed-fake-phone-towers-covertly-spy-british-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Fake &#8216;phone towers&#8217; that covertly spy on the British public"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>More than 20 fake phone poles, which are said to be tools to spy on public communications, have been found in the United Kingdom, according to a new investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The investigation was conducted by the UK-based Sky News, and its findings were released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The poles, which were found in London, have on them tools known in the communications industry as International Mobile Subscriber Identity, also known as Stingrays.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time such espionage tools were detected in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the investigation, the fake communication posts are actually intercepting phone calls and collecting all their data.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities, however, have not revealed who is controlling the masts and for what purpose.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the Scotland Yard, the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London, reportedly bought some of the posts on which the spying devices were found.<\/p>\n<p>The transactions were said to be conducted by the Scotland Yard in 2009, leaving many to suspect that the police force is behind the spying on UK citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/11\/415320\/UK-London-phone-poles-Stingrays\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 fake phone poles, which are said to be tools to spy on public communications, have been found in the United Kingdom, according to a new investigation. The investigation was conducted by the UK-based Sky News, and its findings were released on Wednesday. The poles, which were found in London, have on them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158603","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=158603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}