ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance

Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by caconym_ on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:18PM (#21766356)

Presumably Homeland Security and its child agencies are targeting everybody within 100 miles of a border (~65% of the population) with any and every form of surveillance they can think of, because why not? It's very legal, and very cool.

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by r00fus on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:34PM (#21766517)

> It's very legal, and very cool.

With who? I'd really like to know who is copacetic with this kind of surveillance state.

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by the_snooze on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:35PM (#21766525)

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/very-legal-and-very-cool

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by caconym_ on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:51PM (#21766691)

Per the context at the knowyourmeme link, by "very legal and very cool" I essentially mean "we've decided it's legal and now we're doing it and you might think we're full of shit but what are you going to do about it, little people?"

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by whatshisface on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:35PM (#21766526)

Cool as in "tacticool," like driving military surplus IED-hardened vehicles around for small town policing.

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by opportune on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:54PM (#21766720)

Or staging a shootout over property theft in an area full of civilians

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by caconym_ on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @04:00PM (#21766782)

or taking a guy to the hospital in chains so that doctors can spend the night inspecting the inside of his rectum and colon with increasingly invasive procedures because you think he might be hiding drugs in there

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by hnick on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:04PM (#21767735)

It's a Trump quote.

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by 0x0aff374668 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:25PM (#21768532)

Wasn't there just a court case that ruled CBP couldn't force you to unlock your device without a warrant? Like just 2-3 weeks ago.

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Re:ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone su... by Brain_Thief on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:54PM (#21766728)

"For any reason" is exactly the opposite of why the Trump campaign drew the scrutiny of intelligence agencies.

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