Over the past 12-18 months, there's been an increased level of scrutiny applied to the various ways local, state, and federal law enforcement officials track and monitor the lives of ordinary citizens ...

Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. and in Southern California are using a device so secret that agencies are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement before they can buy or use it. The device ...

A device which tricks cellphones into sending it their location information, and has been used quietly by police and federal agents for years, requires a search warrant before it’s turned on, an ...

NEW YORK — New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas are among scores of police departments across the country quietly using a highly secretive technology developed for the military that can ...

The civil liberties group is suing the Homeland Security agencies after they refused to turn over data on how they use Stingray cellphone surveillance equipment. The American Civil Liberties Union is ...

Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies and U.S. Marshals got a judge’s approval to force a private phone company to add caller ID to a fugitive’s phone without him knowing it as they tracked him with a ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police and prosecutors will disclose more details to judges, criminal defendants and the public about a once-secret cellphone surveillance program. Defense attorneys and privacy ...

There's almost a one-hundred percent chance that during the time you've owned a cell phone, it has at some point connected to a "stingray" phone tracker, a controversial surveillance tool used often ...

New York lawmakers are pushing a new draft privacy bill that aims to curtail the use of cell site simulators, often used by law enforcement for eavesdropping and surveillance. The bill, A1895, ...

It’s being reported that agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI have used a Stingray to track an undocumented individual who was living in Michigan. The Electronic Frontier ...

A federal judge in San Francisco recently excoriated the government over its improper methods in searching one suspect’s cell phone and in the use of a stingray to find an alleged co-conspirator.