Cities won't talk about spying devices disguised as cell phone towers
Mark Frauenfelder
Stingrays are cell phone tracking and monitoring devices disguised as cell phone towers. Harris, the corporation that sells the majority of stingrays, “profited an average of over $533 million in each of the last five years,” according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ars Techica reports that “Harris requires its law enforcement clients to sign … nondisclosure agreements that forbid those agencies from publicly revealing whether they use the stingray.”
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