Even in Canada
The RCMP has too much discretion in how they operate. You can't trust anybody these days.
Sorry eh? Canadian mounties own up: Yes, we own 10 IMSI-catchers
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has ‘fessed up to a long-held suspicion that it uses Stingray-style equipment to track mobile phones. At the same time, in an interview with public broadcaster CBC, Chief Superintendent Jeff Adam says IMSI (international mobile subscriber identity)-catchers that CBC News believes it spotted in …
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Thursday 6th April 2017 01:38 GMT danR2
Re: Even in Canada
It goes far beyond that. It's been known for some time the Vancouver police have been using cell-tower emulators, and the array of equipment available to the various and sundry powers-that-be (military, CSIS, undercover, Mounties, not to mention commercial and private-dick [excluding foreign spooks {leaving out downright criminal} ] ) that can be used under loophole, or special regulation, or supposed exigencies, or simply out unethical and personal appropriation ("I'll just listen in on that *&%@$# so-and-so") will always be below the tip of the iceberg.
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Thursday 6th April 2017 06:12 GMT Ole Juul
Re: Red Chinese Monkey Patrol
The red serge is their dress uniform. You very rarely see it because they don't wear that for regular work. This is what you see normally.
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Thursday 6th April 2017 06:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
but can we be sure he's telling the truth?
After all, neither RCMP nor CSIS would ever lie to the public or to the judiciary, would they? More to the point, CSIS has never tried to illegally and indiscriminately track Canadian travellers through their phones before. The only reason we don't know anything about it is because the information was entirely absent from the cache of data leaked by one Edward D. Snowden. Who'd never even existed and is a traitor if he ever were to exist. I won't tell you a lie, would I?
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Thursday 6th April 2017 06:39 GMT John Smith 19
"They can be used only if a judge is prepared to issue a warrant, "
Sounds like Canada actually has a parliament that doesn't respond in entirely knee jerk fashion to the terrorist-de-jour threat and OMFG still has an independent judiciary.*
*Canadians may not think so, but compare it to you neighbours down South.
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Thursday 6th April 2017 13:47 GMT Alistair
IMSI catchers
Harris makes *most* of the IMSI catchers out there. However If you happen to be a carrier or network provisioner, you have access to, and quite regularly will deploy a mobile system that looks %100 identical to what Harris is selling to police forces. It will be deployed when events occur that will drastically overload the cells you have covering a location, or when one or two critical cells need interim maintenance that will take them offline (yes it does happen. At least in some cases the carrier is concerned enough about the gap to cover it) The critical difference between the units the carriers deploy and the ones the various enforcement agencies deploy is the goddamn paint job on the van.
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