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Guest Post: Meet Stingray Surveillance: The "Unconstitutional, All-You-Can-Eat Data Buffet"
Via Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
It’s getting impossible to keep track of all the new spy tools being rolled out by the police state in the name of “fighting terrorism”, aka spying on innocent American citizens unconstitutionally. I thought that I had my hands full the other day with ARGUS: The World’s Highest Resolution Video Surveillance Platform, but this “Stingray” system is already being deployed illegally in cities throughout the United States. As the EFF states: “The Stingray is the digital equivalent of the pre-revolutionary British soldier.” From the EFF:
The device, which acts as a fake cell phone tower, essentially allows the government to electronically search large areas for a particular cell phone’s signal—sucking down data on potentially thousands of innocent people along the way. At the same time, law enforcement has attempted use them while avoiding many of the traditional limitations set forth in the Constitution, like individualized warrants. This is why we called the tool “an unconstitutional, all-you-can-eat data buffet.”
Recently, LA Weekly reported the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) got a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant in 2006 to buy a stingray. The original grant request said it would be used for “regional terrorism investigations.” Instead LAPD has been using it for just about any investigation imaginable.
Of course, we’ve seen this pattern over and over and over. The government uses “terrorism” as a catalyst to gain some powerful new surveillance tool or ability, and then turns around and uses it on ordinary citizens, severely infringing on their civil liberties in the process.
Stingrays are particularly odious given they give police dangerous “general warrant” powers, which the founding fathers specifically drafted the Fourth Amendment to prevent. In pre-revolutionary America, British soldiers used “general warrants” as authority to go house-to-house in a particular neighborhood, looking for whatever they please, without specifying an individual or place to be searched.
The Stingray is the digital equivalent of the pre-revolutionary British soldier.
On March 28th, the judge overseeing the Rigmaiden case, which we wrote about previously, will hold a hearing on whether evidence obtained using a stringray should be suppressed. It will be one of the first times a judge will rules on the constitutionality of these devices in federal court.
It will be interesting to see what happens in late March. I will be watching.
Full article here.
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Well, I'm fucking paranoid about my electronics myself.
All my stuff is from my employer and a while ago, I don't know why, I just started to put tape on all the webcams, even on my ipad.
I also just asked my boss is we where being tracked and the answer was: NOT YOU
now... WHAT KIND OF FUCKING ANSWER IS THAT?!?!
He probably said that because it's noted in my contract that they can't track me or read my emails but why wouldn't they just do it and not mention it but use it when needed?
THERE'S THE DIVERENCE IN WHAT THE CAN AND CAN'T DO BUT DO ANYWAY!
So I unplugged half the stuff, but I simply can't erase the tracking software. It's not that I have much to hide about that but I just don't want it.
The reason why I taped the webcams is because you can activate all of them on any device.
It's called the "mommy and daddy surveilance" YEAH!! GIVE IT THOSE NAMES AND EVERYBODY SAYS: OH THAN IT'S OKAY!!
There are general legal requirements for internal business (vs. for outside of business- customers).
E-mail is data, and data gets backed up. I had fun clobbering Verizon over the head after they messed up a bunch of my services way back when they were an Internet provider (and they're now kind of getting back in to it via 3G/4G)- they wiped out an e-mail account of mine (lost lots of information); had to keep pushing up itheir management chain before getting them to admit that they backed up all e-mail (I pointed out to them that I worked for an international corporation and had been responsible for installing an e-mail system, so I knew a little bit about these sorts of things).
The british pre revolutionary soldier?
Well, actually, as the King tried to curb the burgeoning and soon to be 'american' middle class, it is very doubtful that this 'american' device, much more efficient than a clueless lower class soldier, is going to be used for the same effect.
The device wont be used to curb the middle class but to maintain it in as many of their entitlements it is possible to be.
As being innocent, it is another manipulation brought by 'americanism'.
Up to the King's days, the question was about being guilty or not guilty. The question itself is loaded as you indeed need to bear accurate accusations to make a point.
A rope that 'americans' perfectly used to hang the King with.
Of course, 'americans' are 'americans' and aware of their 'american' ways.
That is why they have unsubtly but still effectively changed the dialects of justice to be innocent.
It changes everything as to prove innocence is much more demanding than non guiltiness.
And even so much better, the question of innocence relieves an accuser from the burden of providing an accurate, founded accusation. All that is to be done is to find something that negates innocence.
Considering the large codexes of laws as generated by 'american' societies, those devices are not going to treat data of millions of innocent people but millions of guilty of something people.
Therefore there is no breach by 'american' standards. 'Americans' following their manipulation of justice can simply not oppose this kind of project.
It is an easy and safe bet to bet that there are very few innocents in an 'american' societies. It would be another bet to provide in advance what they are guilty of though.
But the good thing: 'americans' have transformed the question of justice from guilty and not guilty into innocent and guilty.
'Americanism' at work.
I think that this is a better thought-out posting by you, but... You STILL don't get it that this is by no means unique to "Americans." It's the stuff of empires.
Further, and CPL has done a great job of pointing this out, TPTB are in a bit of a pickle in that the very thing that has allowed them to construct this ability to control us is dissipating, and there's very little that they can do about it (entropy is looming large).
this is not a matter of whether the information should be suppressed....it is a matter of convicting those who allowed the atrocity to be placed, and to jail them as traitors.
"jail them as traitors"
Why, so they can have lawyers get them back out?
And, really, we'll have to pay for their incarceration. Seems that we've already paid enough on their behalf.
Oh you can bet your ass this will happen. Everything comes in small steps. Illegal to use the evidence now, install suck-ass judges and pass more terrorist legislation at a later date.
Well if you aren't doing anything illegal or texting 'kill' messages you'll be ok--for now.
I'm more worried about the health effects for now, radiation or whatever could come from it and then having to rely on obamacare to fix it lol.
At times ww3 doesn't sound so bad most of us will get wiped out but at least these bastards will go to.
Osama Bin laden wins.
"At times ww3 doesn't sound so bad most of us will get wiped out but at least these bastards will go to."
just make sure that there's some N-head allocation for the WS HQ, The POTUS & Its Committee, The City, The Tower of Babylon (BIS den), the Whore of babylon and the City on Seven Hills... only then we may get some sense of justice.