Article 1GVX5 Mounties used Stingrays to secretly surveil millions of Canadians for years

Mounties used Stingrays to secretly surveil millions of Canadians for years

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Cory Doctorow
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Motherboard used public records requests to extract 3,000+ pages of court docs from a massive 2010 RCMP mafia/drug bust in Montreal, codenamed "Project Clemenza," which revealed the full extent of the Mounties' secret use of Stingrays -- AKA "IMSI Catchers," the fake cellular towers that let cops covertly track whole populations by tricking their phones into revealing information about them. (more")

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