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Secret Service and ICE Used Stingray Devices Without Warrants, Watchdog Finds

Loaded on May 12, 2023

Filed under: Immigration, Police State-Surveillance, Cell Site Location Information ("CSLI"). Location: United States of America.

A government watchdog has found that the Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) used cell-site simulators, also known as “stingrays,” without warrants on multiple occasions.

The findings, published by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, come as the use of stingrays by law enforcement …

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