Homeland Security Will Now Get Warrants For Stingray Surveillance

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That wasn't so hard, now was it?

The Department of Homeland Security has a new, more constitutional policy for cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays. Rolled out today, the new policy follows in the footsteps of the previously announced Justice Department policy, requiring explicit warrants for the deployment of the technology, except in exceptions already made by the Fourth Amendment or "exigent circumstances" like threats to human life or destruction of evidence.
 
It does very little to control non-DHS entities though. Just issue a grant to a sheriff's office and they can purchase and use the stingray as they see fit.
 
So they're going to get a warrant for every device it tricks in the vicinity? That's some preplanning!
 
What I don't get is why cell phone companies aren't doing something to thwart this?

Couldn't they do something where eschewing time a call was made a secure token was passes that verified the authenticity of the connection?
 
Great, so they're finally following the law?
 
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https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/f...the Use of Cell-Site Simulator Technology.pdf
 
WE DON'T NEED PRIVACY BECAUSE POLITICIANS WILL ALWAYS BE VERY HONEST AND FORTHRIGHT. I MEAN WHEN HAVE GOVERNMENTS DONE ANYTHING WRONG EVER?
 
"like threats to human life or destruction of evidence"
Law enforcement's bar for determining threats is pretty darn low.
 
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