Mass Surveillance: Cops Turn Individuals' Phones Into Spying Devices, they now admit

Well, no kidding. I always tell people visiting me to leave their cell phones in their car because I do not like talking to all the various police agencies that spy on me through the phone. If they won't do that, I say little and keep it superficial and boring. Of course the CIA and FBI already has the car and house bugged, but the cops get at you through phones and wifi. Keep those out of the room or turned off.

Look up DIRTBOX, STINGRAY, etc. If you doubt the above.

DB

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
It’s for their own good, of course! A New Jersey police department has unveiled technology that will allow 911 operators to stream video from callers smartphones. And ANY COP who wants to at any time, 24 hours a day.

For the time being, callers have to turn on the live video stream, meaning they are consenting and giving the police permission to see what’s happening as they call. This is the first step to automatic surveillance upon calling people who are assumed to be there to help. According to RT, the technology allows the 911 operators to use the phone’s camera and microphone. This is the first step down a very slippery slope.

911eye, developed by Capita Secure Solutions and Services in conjunction with West Midlands Fire Service in the UK, represents a step toward a terrifying surveillance infrastructure that can turn any internet-capable device into a remote-activated surveillance tool. West Midlands Police were the first to embrace “pre-crime” technology in the UK, developing the National Data Analytics Solution to sniff out potential offenders and divert them with ostensibly therapeutic “interventions.”

If the fact that it was developed by the people behind the real-life version of ‘Minority Report’ isn’t enough reason to give 911eye a wide berth, take a look at Carbyne911, one of its competitors. Funded by deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein through former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, Carbyne911 markets itself as the solution to mass shootings. The program – founded by current and former Israeli intelligence personnel, which isn’t at all worrisome given that this country spies on the US so extensively it scares Congress – lets emergency dispatchers commandeer the camera and microphone of any internet-capable device within a certain range of the person who made the call. –RT

Investors in this technology include Peter Thiel. Thiel’s company Palantir has been described as “using war on terror tools to track American citizens,” and its advisory board includes Patriot Act co-author Michael Chertoff, the former Department of Homeland Security chief. At least two US counties have reportedlyadopted Carbyne911, despite obvious privacy issues and basic human rights concerns. Not to mention the fact that while most of its employees and personnel have military-intelligence connections, few have a background in emergency services, which should also alarm anyone who wants their freedom and privacy in a world where they have neither.
Keep waving those flags and repeating “I am free.”  This message brought to you by the U.S. Ministry of Truth. 

Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Our towns and cities have become battlefields, and we the American people are now the enemy combatants to be spied on tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the consequences can be a one-way trip to jail or even death.

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It's too late. His article is 20 years too late and now with wifi and smart phones and Siri and Alexia, and RING, the clowns and jokers have every possible surveillance angle covered.

And these perverts listen and watch you in the bedroom, because they are satanic degenerates. 

New Device Allows Cops To Download All Of Your Smartphone Activity In Seconds

The truth is, most cops download your phone data anyways, when they take it back to their cruiser under false pretenses. they have a device called dirtbag, that instantly through plug or WIFI, that cuts through passwords and downloads all media, messages, and phone logs. Be advised. You are already getting fucked. And why? 

To get dirt on you for felony arrests, which is what they want. Or for blackmail, depending.


Via TheAntiMedia.org,

“Any person who operates a motor vehicle in the state shall be deemed to have given consent to field testing of his or her mobile telephone and/or personal electronic device for the purpose of determining the use thereof while operating a motor vehicle, provided that such testing is conducted by or at the direction of a police officer.”

That’s language from the text of a bill currently working its way through the New York state legislature. The legislation would allow cops to search through drivers’ cell phones following traffic incidents — even minor fender-benders — to determine if the person was using their phone while behind the wheel.

Most states have laws banning the use of mobile devices while driving, though such laws are rarely enforced. This is largely because it’s nearly impossible to catch someone in the act. What person would admit to an officer that they broke the law, the argument goes, particularly when it’s after the fact? After all, cops don’t show up until after the accident occurs.

Now, technology exists that would give police the power to plug drivers’ phones into tablet-like devices — being called “textalyzers” in the media — that tell officers exactly what they were doing on their phone and exactly when they were doing it. And if the readout shows a driver was texting while driving, for instance, the legal system will have an additional way to fine them.

“Recording your every click, tap or swipe, it would even know what apps you were using. Police officers could download the data, right on the spot,” Jeff Rossen of NBC News said in a video report on the technology.

Proponents of the legislation point to the rise in traffic fatalities associated with using mobile devices while driving. But rights activists, such as Rashida Richardson of the New York Civil Liberties Union, says it’s a societal issue and no excuse to violate an individual’s privacy:

“This is a concern because our phones have some of our most personal and private information — so we’re certain that if this law is enforced as it is proposed, it will not only violate people’s privacy rights, but also civil liberties.”

New York state isn’t alone. Currently, similar legislation is being considered in Tennessee and New Jersey.

Even if you power off your cell phone, the U.S. government can turn it back on.

it's a crafty hack. You press the button. The device buzzes. You see the usual power-off animation. The screen goes black. But it'll secretly stay on -- microphone listening and camera recording.
How did they get into your phone in the first place? Here's an explanation by former members of the CIA, Navy SEALs and consultants to the U.S. military's cyber warfare team. They've seen it firsthand.
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Government spies can set up their own miniature cell network tower. Your phone automatically connects to it. Now, that tower's radio waves send a command to your phone's antennae: the base-band chip. That tells your phone to fake any shutdown and stay on.
A smart hack won't keep your phone running at 100%, though. Spies could keep your phone on standby and just use the microphone -- or send pings announcing your location.
John Pirc, who did cyber security research at the CIA, said these methods -- and others, like physically bugging devices -- let the U.S. hijack and reawaken terrorists' phones.
Related: Cybersecurity: How safe are you?
"The only way you can tell is if your phone feels warm when it's turned off. That means the base-band processor is still running," said Pirc, now chief technology officer of the NSS Labs security research firm.It used to be that way, but no longer. They run RFID spy chips added on to the case of smart phones which require NO POWER from the battery to enable the system circuitry to be operational.

Defend yourself against cellphone spoofing

(INTELLIHUB) — Over the past year or so we have heard how the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and even local law enforcement agencies have deployed cell-site simulators or cellphone-tower spoofing units. This technology is marketed via a variety of names: DirtBox, StingRay, and TriggerFish.
Technically they are known as IMSI catchers. IMSI is defined as International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI). A mobile identity is assigned to each phone which transmits its identity to whichever network it is transmitting and receiving through. Unfortunately for the general public these IMSI catchers scoop up most if not all cellphones operating within their transmission and reception perimeter, which in turn violates the privacy of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent citizens.
Additionally, many of these IMSI catchers are deployed by the handful on a daily basis throughout major American cities without a warrant.
According to GlobalResearch, “When a suspect makes a phone call, the StingRay tricks the cell into sending its signal back to the police, thus preventing the signal from traveling back to the suspect’s wireless carrier. But not only does StingRay track the targeted cell phone, it also extracts data off potentially thousands of other cell phone users in the area.”
“Originally intended for terrorism investigations, the feds and local law enforcement agencies are now using the James Bond-type surveillance to track cell phones in drug war cases across the nation without a warrant. Federal officials say that is fine — responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) and the First Amendment Coalition, the Justice Department argued that no warrant was needed to use StingRay technology.”
So much for our right to privacy. Originally this technology would set back a local law enforcement agency more than $100,000, but that is not the case anymore. Suitcase-sized devices are now available, hackers have assembled effective units for a few thousand dollars, and federal funds given to local law enforcement agencies by the Department of Homeland Security (via “Partner Programs”) is often utilized to purchase military-grade technology and weapons.
Now there is one solution to help avoid being caught up in this dragnet, or at least technology which will give you a heads-up as to when your cell-phone is linking up to an unknown tower. It is an easy-to-install software referred to as an IMSI-catcher-detector.
Now since technology rapidly evolves the detection software may not be fool-proof. As I have said many times, the feds have technology which is many (yes many) decades in advance of what the public is aware of. Therefore one can only guess what they have deployed without our knowledge. The software available to the general public is pretty easy to install and seems to be available only for Android phones.
Basically, once you install the software, you download a database of the cellphone towers your cell-service provider utilizes in addition to uploading a “ping” map once you have had the software installed for a day or two. Then if your signal is intercepted by an unknown tower (a.k.a. IMSI Catcher), an icon on the phone will change color, it will record the time and give you the latitude and longitude of the spoofing location.

The software is available from SecUpwN and is quite user-friendly. Here is a screen-shot of the interface.
In addition to the free software, SecUpwN also gives a really good description of how the technology is being used by law enforcement. Once again since the IMSI-catching technology deployed by law enforcement is advancing so rapidly, this is not a fool-proof route to protection. But in many cases it should work for you and give you a bit more comfort considering what we are all up against in a society which is leaning towards such pervasive intrusion.
If there are any tech-savvy Intellihub fans who have more to add regarding IMSI-catchers and other protective measures, I encourage you to share what you know with the other readers in the comments section below.