The Feds Are Now Using 'Stingrays' in Planes to Spy on Our Phone Calls | Privacy | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
From www.wired.com - November 14, 2014 6:15 PM
It’s bad enough the government has been skulking around in cars and vans with a little device that can impersonate a cell phone tower and track you.

Now, in a move that should surprise no one, it’s taking to the skies to expand its tracking reach, in a move that would also allow it to collect data on more people at once.

That’s according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal indicating that the government has been using Cessna planes outfitted with special phone surveillance equipment to track suspects. But the surveillance system is designed to pick up the phone signals of anyone within range. The range of the equipment is currently unknown, but it means that data on potentially tens of thousands of phones could be collected during a single flight.


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