02-12-2016, 01:41 PM
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Not suffering fools today
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: at large
Posts: 34,119
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Coast to coast
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New York City's police have made extensive use of covert devices to track cell phones without obtaining warrants since 2008, a civil liberties group said on Thursday, revealing how frequently law enforcement in the largest U.S. city has employed the technology.
The New York Civil Liberties Union released files that showed the New York Police Department used "cell site simulators" to track nearby cell phones more than a 1,000 times over the past eight years.
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New York police have covertly tracked cell phones, group says | Reuters
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