Congressman introduces bill to end warrantless Stingray surveillance

[John Connor]

A bill has been introduced in Congressthat aims to control the use of the sophisticated surveillance equipment known as Stingray, following a Guardian investigation which revealed the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as the 13th federal agency known to possess the devices.
Stingrays are one of a class of suitcase-size devices known as “cell-site simulators”, which work by pretending to be a cellphone tower in order to strip data and metadata from any phones which connect to them.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rantless-stingray-surveillance-jason-chaffetz


Can you believe the flipping IRS has Stingrays as well? Unreal!