Civilian security is alive and well, because of local terrorism inspections required by the Patriot Act. According to L.A. Weekly, the latest threat to an individual's privacy and liberty is a real-time mobile phone spy system called StingRay. While intended for intercepting enemy transmissions, reports indicate that the Los Angeles Police Department used StingRay 21 times in a four-month duration of 2012 for routine inspections, where non-suspects' private communications were revealed, unknowingly to the court system. Call it collateral damage, as the non-suspects lived near persons the LAPD believed were terrorists. Better yet, call it collateral erosion of the individual rights of complacent citizens.
Listening in on calls
StingRay technology has been used since 2006 by the LAPD. LAPD officials have not made any comment about whether or not it has the legal right to use the technology in inappropriate ways, but it has been using it in many cases, such as homicide, narcotic and burglary inspections. The LAPD was only supposed to use StingRay mobile phone technology for terrorism investigations, but clearly it did not just do that. Between June and Sept of last year, there were 155 StingRay cellular phone investigation cases, and 13 percent of them listened in on calls for non-suspects.
The First Amendment Coalition executive director Peter Scheer does not think the LAPD should be able to use this type of technology. It is virtually extremely hard to avoid intercepting other people with the StingRay technology, according to those who use the technology, but the LAPD manuals do not even make it clear whether or not this is unlawful.
Secretly looking at information
With StingRay, regulators can keep monitors with them in complete secret as opposed to the past when authorities had to get a court order before using them. StingRay is bothersome to civil rights activists for this very reason.
Taking a look at privacy
At this juncture, there's still a great deal of disagreement over StingRay's place amongst privacy regulations. The sophistication of the technology has put it ahead of the judicial curve, and ACLU attorneys like Linda Lye see StingRay as something that demands legal reassessment, as the potential for privacy violations is great.
Listening in on calls
StingRay technology has been used since 2006 by the LAPD. LAPD officials have not made any comment about whether or not it has the legal right to use the technology in inappropriate ways, but it has been using it in many cases, such as homicide, narcotic and burglary inspections. The LAPD was only supposed to use StingRay mobile phone technology for terrorism investigations, but clearly it did not just do that. Between June and Sept of last year, there were 155 StingRay cellular phone investigation cases, and 13 percent of them listened in on calls for non-suspects.
The First Amendment Coalition executive director Peter Scheer does not think the LAPD should be able to use this type of technology. It is virtually extremely hard to avoid intercepting other people with the StingRay technology, according to those who use the technology, but the LAPD manuals do not even make it clear whether or not this is unlawful.
Secretly looking at information
With StingRay, regulators can keep monitors with them in complete secret as opposed to the past when authorities had to get a court order before using them. StingRay is bothersome to civil rights activists for this very reason.
Taking a look at privacy
At this juncture, there's still a great deal of disagreement over StingRay's place amongst privacy regulations. The sophistication of the technology has put it ahead of the judicial curve, and ACLU attorneys like Linda Lye see StingRay as something that demands legal reassessment, as the potential for privacy violations is great.
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