D.C. police sign non-disclosure with FBI to keep StingRay use private

Jeremy Seth Davis
SCMagazine.com
October 02, 2015

Under a non-disclosure agreement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., will keep its StingRay surveillance use private.

The D.C. police also promised to notify the FBI if technical details about the surveillance device were in danger of being exposed as a result of a court proceeding so the agency could take action to have the case dismissed, according to VICE News.

Last month, the Justice Department announced new guidelines that would prohibit agents from using StingRays – which act as fake wireless cell towers to allow law enforcement to intercept mobile calls, text messages and emails – to collect the information without first obtaining a search warrant.

The FBI’s non-disclosure agreement with the Metropolitan Police Department is the latest of several similar NDAs that the agency has signed with local and state police in Florida, New York and Maryland.

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