‘Stingray’ Phone Tracker Spurs Fourth Amendment Debate: The Wall Street Journal has an exclusive on the tricky legal ramifications behind law enforcement’s use of a cellphone-tracking device called a “stingray.” They are designed to locate a mobile phone even when not being used to make a call. Stingray’s are so critical that the FBI has a policy of deleting data gathered. Hmmm….
The trial of a hacker nabbed by a stingray is shaping up to be a constitutional debate on whether the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures, is keeping pace with the times. [WSJ, Digits / WSJ]