21.03.2016 - 12:29 [ ACLU ]

ACLU Releases New FOIA Documents on Aerial Cell Phone Surveillance

The heavily redacted documents we obtained shed a bit of additional light on use of invasive cell site simulators on aircraft. But because the privacy implications of this technology are acute — using a Stingray or Dirtbox from an airplane can capture information about large numbers of bystanders’ phones — the government needs to release more illuminating details than what they have made public so far.