“This newly released transcript (PDF) provides what is likely the first-ever verbatim account of how stingrays are used in actual police operations. And it shows that stingrays are so accurate, they can pinpoint the very room in which a phone is located. After learning the phone’s general location, cops deployed a vehicle-mounted stingray and cruised the streets. Verizon had already provided them with the phone’s unique IMSI identifier, which told the stingray exactly which handset to track. Such searches are controversial in part because stingrays necessarily capture data about all other compatible phones nearby. Stingrays force a connected phone to transmit at full power.”
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