Sentences with phrase «cell site simulators do»

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Given how cell - site simulators work, it's unclear what could be done without the direct involvement of phone manufacturers.

A police spokesperson also confirmed that Modesto does not use cell - site simulators.

A spokesperson also informed us that Placentia does not have cell - site simulators.

We are currently doing further research on the technical aspects of cell - site simulators.

Acting head of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan told Sen. Ron Wyden the agency does not use cell - site simulators — a type of surveillance gear often referred to as a «Stingray» that can track down a specific mobile device by emulating cell phone towers — to locate undocumented immigrants.

This week the Center for Media Justice, ColorOfChange.org, and New America's Open Technology Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission alleging the Baltimore police are violating the federal Communications Act by using cell site simulators, also known as Stingrays, that disrupt cellphone calls and interfere with the cellular network — and are doing so in a way that has a disproportionate impact on communities of color.

In other words, when agents get a warrant to use a cell - site simulator against a suspect target, and in doing so inevitably capture private phone information from countless innocent bystanders, the new policy still lets agents use that incidentally captured information against those bystanders if they get court permission.

Unfortunately, if police can use fake cell towers to force our phones to leak our private information, there is nothing to stop criminals and foreign nations from learning to do the same (in fact a cell - site simulator can be built right now for about $ 1,500).

Unfortunately, if police can use fake cell towers to force our phones to leak our private information, there is nothing to stop criminals and foreign nations from learning to do the same (in fact a cell - site simulator can be

They do so by gathering the IMSI numbers of all phones in the vicinity, until the cell - site simulator finds the IMSI the police are looking for.

And at the very local level, places like Alameda County, CA, and Santa Clara County, CA, are realizing that they don't want powerful cell - site simulator technology in the hands of law enforcement without knowing how it will be used.

The cell - site simulator employed in this case gave the government a powerful person - locating capability that private actors do not have and that, as explained above, the government itself had previously lacked — a capability only superficially analogous to the visual tracking of a suspect.