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For the record the way they caught the Austin bomber is the police have illegal stingray systems set up around the city.
Cell phones will try to connect to these systems because it acts like a cell tower. Once your cell connects they have your location data, GPS info and a time stamp. (Just like these license plate trackers)
The way they caught the bomber, was they looked back at all the saved data to see if any single cell number was at more than 2 bombing locations.
Due to tracking and storing this data they easily matched the numbers of the suspect at more than one bombing location, which is how they caught him so fast.
Now in the case of a terrorist suspect it's great, we are all a bit safer.. However cops are illegally using these systems for much lesser crimes and violating rights of people which is protected by our constitution. Much less is they are not disclosing this in the court of law when they charge someone with a crime. They are convicting people while violating their Consitutional rights which means these cases have the potential to be thrown out of court if defendants later find out a string ray was illegally used.
Meaning rapists, murderers, drug dealers could be let out because cops did illegal searches that were violations of our consitutional rights.
I'm not against the use of systems like this in a legal manner but the way cops are using them violates our constitutional rights because they are just blanket tracking people and accessing that data with out warrants or court orders.
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