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Prison News > Justice Department Looks at Americans' Cell Phones to Search for Criminals - Devices on Planes that Mimic Cellphone Towers Used to Target Criminals, but Also Sift Through Thousands of Other Phones

Justice Department Looks at Americans' Cell Phones to Search for Criminals - Devices on Planes that Mimic Cellphone Towers Used to Target Criminals, but Also Sift Through Thousands of Other Phones

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of mobile phones through devices deployed on airplanes that mimic cellphone towers, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects that is snagging a large number of innocent Americans, according to people familiar with the operations. [read the full story here]

Wall Street Journal, Friday, November 14, 2014
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