Federal Agents Used a Stingray To Track an Immigrant's Phone (detroitnews.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Investigators from Immigration and Custom Enforcement as well as the FBI have been using controversial cell-spoofing devices to secretly track down undocumented immigrants, court records show. According to a report the Detroit News, which obtained an unsealed federal search warrant affidavit, FBI and ICE agents in Michigan used a Stingray device to ensnare a restaurant worker from El Salvador in March. The devices, which were originally intended for counter-terrorism use, have come under fire because there are currently no clear rules governing when law enforcement is allowed to deploy them. Even in cases where authorities have a clear target in mind, they run the risk of exposing personal information of other innocent people in range. Until 2015, Federal investigators were free to deploy the devices without a search warrant. At that point the Justice Department laid out a policy requiring investigators get approval to use the devices first.

Comments

Re:Curious about the history with this guy

[Anonymous Coward]

Re; Stingray for a deportation..

Why is this bad? He was in the USA illegally and shouldn't be here. Some unemployed high school or college kid (which we are neck deep in in this country) could maybe have had that 'busboy' job instead..

Kudos on ICE on finding him and deporting him.

Re:1984

[Anonymous Coward]

So what is difference? How is citizen dissenter like illegal alien invader?

They're illegals - not undocumented.

[sethstorm]

There is no defense for allowing illegals in this country, much less the crimes they commit.