According to new reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Marshals Service—an arm of the Department of Justice—has been using small aircraft equipped with technology that can mimic the functions of cell towers in order to capture the data contained on phones and mobile devices of people across large areas on the ground below. Citing those
US Marshalls Using Spy Planes To Fool Cell Phones, Capture Data
A newly revealed mass surveillance program by the US government is “inexcusable,” says ACLU.
By Jon Queally
