Local Police Departments Have Been Driving Fake Cell Towers Into Neighborhoods To Collect Phone Data

[MADem]

1. It's legal, and they got warrants/court orders.

So there's no abuse cited.

It's interesting technology. A new way to do a thing that's almost as old as the telephone--tap someone's line.

I would imagine that law enforcement likes pulling out a suitcase better than dressing up like a "telephone repairman," scaling a pole, and tapping into the phone that way, or bullshitting their way into an apartment building and fiddling with the phone box in the basement, or what-have-you.

I agree with the magistrate who said that what happens with the "collateral information" needs to be clarified. Anything that isn't related to what they are looking for needs to be dumped.