EFF is gathering data on illegal surveillance of Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors
by Cory Doctorow from on (#25DDX)
During the Standing Rock confrontations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation got reports of police use of IMSI Catchers -- secretive surveillance devices used to gather data from nearby cellphones, often called Stingrays or Dirtboxes -- so it dispatched lawyers and technologists to monitor the situation, and filed 20 public records requests with law enforcement agencies. (more")