jueves, 29 de octubre de 2015

IRS possessed Stingray cellphone surveillance gear, documents reveal | US news | The Guardian

IRS possessed Stingray cellphone surveillance gear, documents reveal | US news | The Guardian





IRS possessed Stingray cellphone surveillance gear, documents reveal


Exclusive: Invoices reveal tax service, 13th federal
agency to use secretive dragnet, upgraded device that pretends to be
cellphone tower to gather metadata


 An illustration of Stingray surveillance technology.

Often not much bigger than a suitcase, Stingray devices are easily
portable in gathering information by imitating cellphone towers.
Illustration: Electronic Frontier Foundation via Flickr