The Department of Justice (DOJ) has begun a review of the secretive use of Stingrays, or cell-phone surveillance technology that mimics cell-phone towers, PCWorld reports. Stingrays trick mobile phones into believing they are communicating with legitimate cell-phone towers while harvesting data from the phones including identity, location and phone content, the report states. The FBI for years used the technology without warrants. But senior government officials have said they want to be more open about the surveillance, though the DOJ hasn’t revealed what that will look like yet in terms of how little or how much it shares.
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