If the DOJ gets its path , it wo n’t need a indorsement to monitor mass who bribe cellphone phone and other electronic services using a fake name , concord to a story in today ’s Wall Street Journal .
The DOJ is reason that because a California man used a fake name when he bought a broadband card , serve and a computer ( and lease his apartment ) he ’s not entitled to protection under the 4th amendment .
The politics used a twist called a Stingray to locate the broadband card being used by Daniel David Rigmaiden . The Stingray mimic a cell telephone tower , and pings the target equipment . It measures the sign military capability , and then move to another location and measures it again . It apply that data point to triangulate the phone ’s position . They are increasingly being used by law of nature enforcement .
The FBI did n’t get a endorsement when it used a Stingray to locate Rigmaiden ’s location . At his flat building complex , it find he had used a fake Idaho on his rental app . It used that to get a search warrant , where it found the broadband plug-in .
The political science ’s debate is that it did n’t need a warrant to locate Rigmaiden because he gave up his fourth ammendment rights and had no sane arithmetic mean of privateness when he used a fake name to rent and buy his broadband card , service and computing machine .
It ’s in the courts , but if the DOJ wins this one , it could think that even if you use a imitation name to buy something in a non - deceitful matter — say a burner telephone set — it can track you down , and perhaps even listen in . Beware , Stringer Bell . [ Wall Street Journal ]
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