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Docs: Responding To Katrina, FBI Made Cell Phone Surveillance Its Priority

Posted by timothy on from the never-waste-a-crisis dept.

v3rgEz writes: There's a lot of lessons that the federal government should have learned in the aftermath of Katrina. Increased domestic surveillance, however, appears to be the one the FBI took to heart, using the natural disaster as a justification for ramping up its use of Stingray cell phone tracking throughout Louisiana after the storm, according to documents released under FOIA to MuckRock.

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  1. Sounds helpful by hawguy · · Score: 4, Funny

    If there's anything that starving, homeless people need in a disaster, it's someone to listen in on their phone calls...which they can't make because they have no way to charge phones and no working cell towers to connect to.

    The FBI would be better off buying banks of phones with a built-in recording device connected to a wireless tower. At least that way they could help people while conducting their surveillance.

  2. Free Data? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm curious. Do you get free data usage if your phone is connected to a Stingray? I guess it wouldn't be so bad then.