Sentences with phrase «locates cell site simulators»

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In the ruling, the judges said, «We thus conclude that under ordinary circumstances, the use of a cell - site simulator to locate a person through his or her cellphone invades the person's actual, legitimate, and reasonable expectation of privacy in his or her location information and is a search.»

Today, the Washington DC Court of Appeals overturned a Superior Court conviction of a man who was located by police using a cell - site simulator, or Stingray, CBS News reports.

In a decision that reversed the decision of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and overturned the conviction of a robbery and sexual assault suspect, the D.C. Court of Appeals determined the use of the cell - site simulator «to locate a person through his or her cellphone invades the person's actual, legitimate and reasonable expectation of privacy in his or her location information and is a search.»

In Detroit, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement used a cell - site simulator to locate and arrest an undocumented immigrant.

We filed an amicus brief, along with the ACLU, pointing a court to facts indicating that the Milwaukee Police Department secretly used a cell - site simulator to locate a defendant through his cell phone without a warrant in U.S. vs. Damian Patrick.

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.

In the case, Baltimore Police used a Hailstorm — a cell - site simulator from the same company that makes Stingrays — to locate Kerron Andrews, the defendant.

The DOJ should strengthen its policy and delete any non-target data retrieved by a cell - site simulator as soon as the target is located without reviewing the non-target data acquired.

Police most often use cell - site simulators to locate wanted persons.

Law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. violated the Fourth Amendment when they used a cell site simulator to locate a suspect without a warrant, a D.C. appeals court ruled on Thursday.

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.

The court determined that the use of a cell - site simulator to track and locate Jones was in fact a «search,» despite claims to the contrary from the prosecution.