FBI can now spy using WiFi
The FBI is testing out an old but controversial spy technology for smartphones on cars. It appears to be working for the agency.The FBI is using a controversial technology traditionally used to locate smartphones as a car tracking surveillance tool that spies on vehicles’ on-board WiFi.
The FBI had already been given permission to use other kinds of surveillance to locate another vehicle, a “black Jeep,” associated with the suspect, according to the warrant application. Again, they were surveillance techniques traditionally used to track cellphones, the first being a pen register, which gets data from a cellphone provider to monitor connections made by the device to other phones or electronic devices.
The Stingray tool appeared to have helped, with another government document showing the warrant had been executed and that the cell-site simulator had indicated there was a “high probability” the Dodge was located inside a garage.
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