Search Results for ‘boston stingray’ — 30 articles
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Boston Police records show the department has never gotten a warrant to use a stingray
According to documents disclosed to the ACLU, the Boston Police Department has never obtained a warrant to use controversial and highly invasive stingray cell phone tracking technology. The department claims that each time BPD officers used a stingray, it was in an...
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ACLU asks when and how Boston Police use Stingray technology
Cell Site Simulators – often referred to as Stingrays, the brand name of one popular model – gather sensitive information about cell phone users by essentially tricking their phones into thinking they are communicating with cell phone company towers, when in fact...
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Boston residents demand community control over police surveillance at packed City Council hearing
In a hearing last week at the Boston City Council, police leaders signaled that they would support a measure to require community control over police surveillance, and community advocates highlighted extreme racial disparities in policing in Boston as a primary driver of...
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We just asked the Boston Police for records about how it spies on our cellphones
The ACLU of Massachusetts this week filed a public records request with the Boston Police Department (BPD) seeking information about its cell phone tracking technology. For too long, the department’s use of controversial cell site simulators has been shrouded in an FBI-mandated cloud of...
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Boston DA and FBI asked congress to weaken encryption, but lawmakers were not impressed
Image: Whisper Systems, a developer of open source encryption technologies.
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Boston police special operations officers refuse to answer questions about mysterious van at Black Lives Matter protest
Help! What is this thing? Spotted at the Black Lives Matter protest today in Boston, on a truck with commercial plates. I saw the same piece of technology at an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York in 2012, and wrote about it here. I'm still not clear on what, exactly, it's for.
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After police and corporate secrecy on cell phone sniffers, will Boston cops be forthright with the public?
Photo credit: Ed Schipul
We’ve heard a lot lately about police departments’ use of cell phone sniffers called “Stingrays”. These devices, technically called IMSI catchers, sniff out the identities, metadata, and sometimes even content from cell phones within a given geographic area.
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Cambridge: Come out on October 18 to assert local control over surveillance!
The Boston Police Department bought three drones without informing the City Council or the people of Boston. Officers were seen testing a drone in a low-income, community of color in Jamaica Plain. The Department doesn’t have a privacy policy to govern the...
