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The Baltimore Police Department is starting to come clean about its use of cell-phone signal interceptors — commonly known as Stingrays — and the numbers are alarming. According to recent court testimony reported by The Baltimore Sun, the city’s police have used Stingray devices with a court order more than 25,000 times. It’s a massive number, representing an average of nearly nine uses a day for eight years (the BPD acquired the technology in 2007), and it doesn’t include any emergency uses of the device, which would have proceeded without a court order. The agency had previously said they used the device only 4,300 times over that period.
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Baltimore police have used secret cellphone interceptors more than 25,000 times http://www.danieluk.net/news/baltimore-police-have-used-secret-cellphone-interceptors-more-than-25000-times/ #Phone, #Technology
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