ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance • Hacker News Board

Re: ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance

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Post by chaps » Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 12:25 AM UTC

Gaelan wrote: post #85

chaps wrote: post #43

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As part of some volunteer work I'm doing with Lucy Parsons Labs, I submitted a FOIA request to every single state's largest city, asking for search warrant records that would likely exist on complaints for search warrants, the warrants themselves, or from any audit. About 100 requests in total. After two months, only two cities have sent me their search warrant records. All other states have given me rejections sayin…

Do you happen to have a city-by-city breakdown of the responses anywhere?

Nothing yet, but I hope to get something in the next couple weeks. Here are all of the requests, including their responses: https://www.muckrock.com/project/search-warrant-data-608/

Re: ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance

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Post by chaps » Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 12:27 AM UTC

4AoZqrH2fsk5UB wrote: post #135

chaps wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As part of some volunteer work I'm doing with Lucy Parsons Labs, I submitted a FOIA request to every single state's largest city, asking for search warrant records that would likely exist on complaints for search warrants, the warrants themselves, or from any audit. About 100 requests in total. After two months, only two cities have sent me their search warrant records. All other states have given me rejections sayin…

Do you have a template for this? I'd like to submit such a request to my own city.

Yep, please check out the requests at: https://www.muckrock.com/project/search-warrant-data-608/

It'd be a good idea to limit the set of record points to only those that you're interested in.

Re: ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance

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Post by thatcat » Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 8:42 AM UTC

auiya wrote: post #159

thatcat wrote: post #150

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If police use the lack of information from those avenues as a justification for a warrant to conduct surveillance then that argument is moot.

Are you privy to any warrants actually being issued solely because the police couldn't turn up info on a suspect via Facebook or Google? Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't think that's a thing that actually happens.

Although reputation and behavior has a role in the decision other factors would need to be in play. I meant more that no social media could be seen as anti social by a judge and added to the list of things that ultimately satisfies probable cause.