{"id":9292,"date":"2013-12-09T01:21:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:27:18","slug":"cellphone-surveillance-a-new-tool-in-police-arsenal-to-combat-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/cellphone-surveillance-a-new-tool-in-police-arsenal-to-combat-crime","title":{"rendered":"Cellphone surveillance: A new tool in police arsenal to combat crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ody-byline-written-by\">\n<h6>Written by John Kelly USA Today<\/h6>\n<p>The National Security Agency isn\u2019t the only government entity secretly collecting data from people\u2019s cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with new technologies, including mobile devices that tap into cellphone data in real time, dozens of local and state police agencies are capturing information \u2014 about thousands of cellphone users at a time, whether they are targets of an investigation or not, according to public records obtained by USA Today, The Des Moines Register and other Gannett newspapers and TV stations.<\/p>\n<p>The records, from more than 125 police agencies in 33 states, reveal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20131208\/NEWS\/312080052\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by John Kelly USA Today The National Security Agency isn\u2019t the only government entity secretly collecting data from people\u2019s cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too. Armed with new technologies, including mobile devices that tap into cellphone data in real time, dozens of local and state police agencies are capturing information \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,1512,1412,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-mobile-phones","category-privacy","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56644,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/56644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}