Article 2Q3J2 Feds admit they used secret anti-terror mass surveillance tool to catch an undocumented waiter

Feds admit they used secret anti-terror mass surveillance tool to catch an undocumented waiter

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Cory Doctorow
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Rudy Carcamo-Carranza was an undocumented restaurant worker in Michigan wanted for a DUI and a hit-and-run; the FBI and ICE used IMSI catchers -- powerful, secretive cellphone tracking tools that the agencies bill as a kind of superweapon in the war on terror -- to catch him and put him up for deportation. (more")

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