It's funny that these posts usually get minimal engagement, in comparison to posts about stupid corporate DEI nonsense which will have 900 commenters shitting their pants about how it's Literally 1984.
It's not illegal if nobody is punished, really. Just naughty. But with no actual repercussions for the people who ordered, and carried out, the illegal surveillance, and no restitution to the people who were violated, it doesn't matter and will of course continue. That's the thing, stuff that's illegal for the government to do usually isn't because there's rarely any accountability.
Since Stingrays were first sold. Certainly during the Obama era, might have been Bush before that.<p>During analog cell phone days, you could just listen in on scanners, as a Newt Gingrich scandal showed.
IA link to Office of Inspector General report entitled <i>Secret Service and ICE Did Not Always Adhere to Statute and Policies Governing Use of Cell-Site Simulators (REDACTED)</i><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230307201306/https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/OIG-23-17-Feb23.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20230307201306/https://docs.recl...</a>
Someone should gather/identify agents technical ability as demonstrated by their testimony as it relates to the technical skill required to make the 'breakthroughs' they have in cases. Just saying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯<p>Oh wait, we can't, because even though 'caselaw' is the law of the land and we should have access to case records (that are the registry for 'caselaw') we don't unless we pay big $$$. It's like everything is done to keep with the optics of following the Constitution but nothing is done keeping with the spirit.